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A Bannatyne garland, Quhairin the President speaketh.

Accession number
PML 44307
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832, author.
Published
[Edinburgh : James Ballantyne, 1823]
Notes
No. 118, pt. 1 of the Bannatyne Club Publications.
Ruff, no. 177 (see also p. 281 of "Additions" at end).
In 10 stanzas.
1st edition
Pages 7-8 blanks and genuine.
40 copies only - one for each member of the Bannatyne Club, written by Scott on the occasion of the first dinner of the Club, 27 February, 1823.
"Printed by James Ballantyne on 22 Nov. 1823."
Stitched; uncut.
"Marbled paper (in which this is bound) was not used on the publications of The Bannatyne Club until 1828."
Description
6 pages ; 21 cm
Provenance
On title-leaf, the autograph signatures of Scott's friend, W.A. (Drummond) Hay, "the antiquary and Lyon-Herald" (Scott's Journal, Mar. 9, 1828). Acquired with the Van Antwerp collection, Feb. 1952.
Binding
Original marble wrappers in green morocco covers.
Classification
Department