Marmion; a tale of Flodden Field
by SCOTT, Walter
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- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Printed by J. Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, 1808. [8], 377, [1], cxxvi pp. With additional engraved title page (dated 1809) and a further six plates after designs by Richard Westall. Contemporary brown straight-grain morocco, richly tooled in gilt and blind, gauffered edges. Rubbed, spine dulled. Yellow silk endpapers, gilt dentelles, scattered spotting, pencilled ownership inscription of William St. Clair to verso of FFEP. An elaborately bound copy of the first edition of Sir Walter Scott's (1771-1832) most intellectually ambitious long poem; a meditation on war, patriotism and personal corruption, that concludes with Flodden, the battle on 9th September 1513 in which James IV, king of Scots, was killed and the Scottish army annihilated. Consisting of six cantos, each with an introductory epistle, Marmion was first published in Edinburgh by Archibald Constable in 1808; 2,000 copies were printed. Scott made refinements to the text for the second and third editions (3,000 copies each) published later in the year. Many further editions followed, both individual and collected, and in 1830 Scott provided the poem with a revised introduction. William St. Clair (1937-2021), British scholar and senior civil servant, notable as the author of The Godwins and the Shelleys, The Biography of a Family (1989) and The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (2004). . First edition. Quarto.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ27638
- Title
- Marmion; a tale of Flodden Field
- Author
- SCOTT, Walter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Printed by J. Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1808
- Keywords
- Poetry, Verse
- Size
- Quarto
Terms of Sale
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Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
About the Seller
Antiquates Ltd
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Wareham, Dorset
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Gauffered Edges
- ...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...