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[Scottish antiquarianism] Bannatyne Club
Numbers 11-25 in the Bannatyne Club series
£819
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Description
all 4to, original half morocco, gilt spines, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, plates (including facsimiles of original documents and similar), first two with name of original subscriber Robert Graham picked out in red in list of Bannatyne Club members, bindings rubbed, variable spotting and offsetting, titles comprising:
11) Hectoris Boetii ... Episcorum Vitae, iterum in lucem editae, 1825. One of 60 copies [David Laing, The Bannatyne Club. Lists of Members and the Rules, with a Catalogue of the Books printed for the Bannatyne Club since its Institution in 1823, 1867, p. 50];
12) An Apology for Sir James Dalrymple of Stair, President of the Session, by himself, 1825. Engraved folding portrait frontispiece [Laing, p. 50];
13) The Historie and Life of King James the Sext, 1825. One of 52 copies for the Club [there were also 150 copies for sale, printed 'on paper of different and inferior quality', Laing, p. 50];
14) The Discoverie and Historie of the Gold Mynes in Scotland. By Stephen Atkinson: written in the Year M.DC.XIX., 1825. One of 72 copies [Laing, p. 51];
15) Letters of John Grahame of Claverhouse, Viscount of Dundee, with Illustrative Documents, 1826. [Laing, p. 51];
16) De Vita et Morte Roberti Rollok, Academiae Edinburgenae Primarii, Narrationes, 1826. Extract from Bannatyne Club publication Adversaria (1867) bound in at front [Laing, p. 51];
17) The Palice of Honour. By Gawyn Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, 1827. With manuscript compliments slip from Club member John Gardiner Kinnear mounted to front free endpaper [Laing, p. 52: 'Only two copies of [the original] edition [of 1579] are known];
18) Memoirs of his own Life by Sir James Melville of Halhill. M.D.XLIX.-M.D.XCIII. From the Original Manuscripts, 1827. [Laing, p. 52];
19) The Bannatyne Miscellany; containing Original Papers and Tracts, chiefly relating to the History and Literature of Scotland, 1827-36-55. 3 volumes [Laing, pp. 52-3];
20) Chronicon Coenobii Sanctae Crucis Edinburgensis, iterum in lucem editum, 1828. Hand-coloured seal facsimile as frontispiece [Laing, p. 53];
21) Thomae Dempsteri Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Scotorum, 1829. 2 volumes, together with the separately issued corrected sheets for volume 1 pp. 1-120 (in original drab wrappers), volume 2 damp-stained [Laing pp. 53-4: 'The impression of the work being enlarged after part of the first volume had been printed off, the first fifteen sheets were reprinted, with a few verbal corrections, and copies sent along with the Preface in 1829'];
22) Extract from the Despatches of M. Courcelles, French Ambassador at the Court of Scotland. M.D.LXXXVI.-M.D.LXXXVII., 1828. [Laing, p. 54];
23) Siege of the Castle of Edinburgh. M.DC.LXXXIX., 1828. Extract from Bannatyne Club publication Adversaria (1867) bound in at front [Laing, p. 54];
24) Letters from the Lady Margaret Kennedy, to John, Duke of Lauderdale, 1828. [Laing, pp. 54-5];
25) The History of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland and England, from M.DC.XXIV. to M.DC.XLV. By John Spalding, 1828. 2 volumes [Laing p. 55]
Footnote
Note: The Bannatyne Club was an antiquarian printing society founded in Edinburgh in 1823 by Sir Walter Scott on the model of London's Roxburghe Club.
Provenance: 1) Robert Graham (1785-1859), of Redgorton and Balgowan, advocate; 2) Thence by descent; 3) Lyon & Turnbull, 1st February 2005, lot 211.