Minstrelsy of the Scottish border
Subtitle: consisting of historical and romantic ballads, collected in the southern countries of Scotland; with a few of modern date, founded upon local tradition. In three volumes. Vol. I. Second edition
Publisher: Printed by James Ballantyne, for Longman, and Rees … London and sold by Manners and Miller, and A. Constable
Published: 1803
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First of 3 volumes in 8vo. pp. [10], clxviii, 291. Signatures: [pi]5 a-k8 l4 A-S8 T2. Calf. Coat of arms plate on endpaper. Front free endpaper signed “Wm Macmath, 8th July 1909.” V. 1. Historical ballads; v. 2. Romantic ballads. Imitations of the ancient ballad; v. 3. Historical ballads. Romantic ballads. Imitations of the ancient ballad.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Despite ‘Second Edition’ on the title page, this is in fact the original edition of the third volume; see W. B. Todd &amp; A. Bowden, Sir Walter Scott: A Bibliographical History, 1796–1832. New Castle, Del., 1998, 8Ac.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">On the possibility that the ballad ‘Auld Maitland’, first published in vol. 3, is a forgery by James Hogg, see J. A. Farrer, Literary forgeries. London and New York, 1907, pp. 254ff.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103475" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>