THE SONGS OF SCOTLAND: A Collection of One Hundred and Ninety Songs.
London and New York: Boosey & Co. and William A. Pond & Co., 1877. Hardcover. New and Enlarged Edition, also the Royal Edition. This is the first American issue. Tall octavo: xvi, 221, [4, index], [1, blank] pp. with numerous musical scores. In the publisher's royal blue sand-grain cloth binding, with black-stamped ornamental borders, entwined strapwork, rosevine decorations, and titling, and gilt-stamped titling, and a trefoil red coated paper onlay with gilt over-stamped stamped ornamental borders and floral-decorative titling on the front panel; gilt-stamped running titling on the spine; and blind-stamped ruled borders on the rear panel. All edges gilt, with yellow coated endpapers. Period bookseller's ink stamp to the title page, with a period ownership inscription to the front flyleaf. The binding is clean and bright, with a bit of wear to the corners and tips; otherwise very good. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin. Very good. Item #80931
Price: $125.00