SIR QUIXOTE OF THE MOORS: Being Some Account of an Episode in the Life of the Sieur de Rohaine
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation inscription on the front free endpaper to Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman (1836-1908), a British statesman and Liberal politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908, from his brother. The author's first novel, set in Galloway in Scotland during the Covenanting period (the middle or late 17th century). Buchan (1875-1940) was nineteen and an undergraduate at Glasgow University when the book was published. Small octavo: 188 p. with [4] p. publisher's advertisements. In the publisher's black flat-weave cloth binding, with red-stamped geometric titles, yellow-stamped titles, and red and green-stamped stylized lillies against a pink-stamped brick wall. Tiny gift inscription to the front pastedown, with some very light wear to the corners and tips; else near fine. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin. Near fine. Item #77496
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