Shelfmark
Icc4.5.24-Icc4.5.25
Author
Title
Minstrelsy of the Scottish border : consisting of historical and romantic ballads, collected in the southern counties of Scotland; with a few of modern date, founded upon local tradition. In two volumes.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Kelso : Printed by James Ballantyne, for T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, Strand, London; and sold by Manners and Miller, and A. Constable, Edinburgh, 1802.
Physical description
2 v. ([6], cxxxviii, 258, [2] ; [4], 392, [2] p.) ; 22 cm.
Note
Errata at end of each volume.
Note
Compiled by Sir Walter Scott.
Note
Both vols with a half-title.
Provenance
Both vols with bookplate of C. J. M. Adie.
Provenance
Vol 2 with bookplate of John Macneill Jr, of Gigha.
Binding
Both vols with early 19th century leather binding (both vols re-backed in the [?]20th century) with gilt tooled borders on boards, gilt tooling on spines, gilt on red leather lettering pieces on spines, and marbled endpapers and edges.
Copy-specific note
[?]Lacking frontispiece.
Subject
Ballads, English.
Subject
Ballads, Scots.
Subject
Borders Region (Scotland).
Added entry--name
Adie, C. J. M. (Clement James Mellish), 1876 - 1954 former owner.
Added entry--name
Macneill, John former owner.
Added entry--name
Ballantyne, James, 1772 - 1833 printer.
Added entry--name
Cadell, Thomas, 1773 - 1836 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Davies, William, ? - 1820 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Constable, A. J. bookseller.
Added entry--name
Manners and Miller bookseller.
Added entry--place
England London.
Added entry--place
Scotland Edinburgh.
Identifier
B28366