Description
12mo, pp. lxxviii, 454, [2] + frontispiece. Twentieth-century half calf, marbled boards, spine divided by double blind rules and lettered in gilt direct. Some scattered foxing and browning.
Beauties of The Scottish Poets or Harp of Renfrewshire. A Collection of Songs and Other Poetical Pieces Many of Which are Original, Accompanied with Notes Explanatory, Critical, and Biographical and A Short Essay on The Poets of Renfrewshire.
- Glasgow: Published by William Turnbull 1821
£180
Notes
The first anthology edited by poet and ballad collector William Motherwell (1797-1835). This edition is a reissue of the Turnbull's 1820 edition with a cancel title-page adding 'Beauties of The Scottish Poets' in a presumed attempt to widen its appeal. The sheets may in fact be left over from the 1819 Paisley first, since the Turnbull editions have a Paisley printer in the colophon and all three editions use the same plate for the frontispiece.
