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. Fourth edition
Publisher: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. For Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme … London and A. Constable and Co.
Published: 1810
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 520
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. [6], clxxxiii, 312. Signatures: [pi]3, a-m8 A-T8 U4. Morocco. </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Bookplate of Charles Lane. V. 1. Introduction. Historical ballads; v.2. Historical ballads (cont.). Romantic ballads; v.3. Romantic ballads (cont.). Imitations of the ancient ballad.</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;"><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;">Walter Scott, usually a discriminating antiquary, published ‘Auld Maitland’ in the third volume of his Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (see also his ‘second edition’, 1803, cf. Bib# 4103475/Fr# 819 in this collection), a now-famous forgery perhaps by James Hogg. The present, revised edition includes, for the first time, three ballads forged by Robert Surtees; see J. A. Farrer, Literary forgeries. London and New York, 1907, pp. 258–60, and W. B. Todd &amp; A. Bowden, Sir Walter Scott: A Bibliographical History, 1796–1832. New Castle, Del., 1998, 8Af.</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_1148679" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>