Laing David Editor (31 results)

hardcover. Condition: As New. 4th. Dust jacket included and in very good condition: price clipped. Navy blue boards w/ silver lettering in v.g. condition. No writing, highlighting, or marks in text. B&W photos and illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Back page foxing. Age related staining throughout book (copyright 1948). Corners worn. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback Volume 1 only of 2. Rubbed burgundy covers. Front hinge cracked. Clean text. 320 pages Wt 0.5 Kg Good.

Publisher's Cloth. Condition: Good+. First Edition. - 181 mm. Brown buckram hardcover, gilt titling on front and spine. Frontispiece. Illustrated. Pp. xxiv, 320. This is volume one only of a two volume work. Gilt titling has faded a little. Binding canted a little to the right. Minor edge wear and rubbing to cover. Well aged volume with only minor wear. Overall, G+.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. New Edition. Hardback. A very good copy in red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. A clean copy without ownership inscription or other internal marking. 318 pages. Substantial preface by the editor. Contains thirteen "tales" including "The Thrie Tailes of the Thrie Priests of Peblis, "The Battle of Harlaw" and "Sir John Barleycorn.".

Magazine. 104p. includes covers, 8.5x11 inches, articles, news, reviews, ads, photos, art, very good magazine in color stapled pictorial wraps. Debut of the men's lifestyle magazine aimed at gay men. Stories included in these first two issues are Dr. David Gottlieb discussing The Gay Tapes, a profile of Hulk Lou Ferrigno, Jack Wrangler on Your Body, Hawaii: Adventures in Paradise, etc. Only two issues published.

Condition: good. Book is considered to be in good or better condition. The actual cover image may not match the stock photo. Hard cover books may show signs of wear on the spine, cover or dust jacket. Paperback book may show signs of wear on spine or cover as well as having a slight bend, curve or creasing to it. Book should have minimal to no writing inside and no highlighting. Pages should be free of tears or creasing. Stickers should not be present on cover or elsewhere, and any CD or DVD expected with the book is included. Book is not a former library copy.

Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Cloth, VG. xlii+[errata]+xli+[tp]+628pp, b/w frontis, folding map, Old Library stamp to the title, ink accession number to the spine, internally a fine copy save for a water tide mark to the forontis, nicely printed on fine paper. Subscribers copy limited to 100 copies. Second volume of the Bannatyne club edition of the The Chronicles & Charters of Arbroath Abbey. The abbey was founded in 1178 by King William the Lion & dedicated to Saint Thomas Becket. Uncommon. 2000 grams.

Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Cloth, VG. xx+cxvi+336pp, b/w frontis, folding plan, folding facsimile, 5 b/w plates, text illustrations, Old Library stamp to the title, ink accession number to the spine, head of spine frayed, internally a fine copy nicely printed on fine paper. The Chronicles & Charters of St. Giles' Cathedral or the High Kirk of Edinburgh with a 100pp history of the church & architectural description preceeding. Uncommon. 2350 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 450 pages. 9.75x6.75x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 336 pages. 9.61x6.65x9.61 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 400 pages. 10.00x7.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 432 pages. 10.25x7.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 400 pages. 10.25x7.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 288 pages. 9.60x6.65x9.61 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 832 pages. 9.75x7.50x2.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Second Edition. Hardback. A good copy in black cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Some wear/rubbing to boards. Very good internally. No ownership inscription. A little foxing. Pp.xxxviii,411. Frontispiece. Contains 27 ancient Scottish poems. Pencilling to rear end-paper and a few pencil marks in text. First published in 1822.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Green Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No dj. Printed at Edinburgh: MDCCCXLVIII tight clean hardback, 456 pp dark green cloth boards, moderate rubbing to spine with loss of cloth at spine ends, minor marks to boards, few foxing spots to edges and extremities - Sent from Scotland by Royal Mail, all international orders by PRIORITY AIR-MAIL. all books carefully packed.

First Edition. Three volume set in the original blue cloth with paper spine labels. Labels a little worn and chipped. Fold out facsimiles VG.

Edition Unstated. Good copy in the original paper-covered boards with paper labels. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Limited to 175 copies. Provenance: book plates of C. Roland Kiep and Hansard Watt. Contents; History of Sir Gray-Steill.--Tales of the priests of Peblis.--Ane godlie dreame.--History of a lord and his three sons.--The ring of the Roy Robert.--King Estmere.--The battle of Harlaw.--Lichtoun's dreme.--The murning maiden.--Epistill of the hermit of Alareit.--History of Roswall and Lillian.--Poem by Glassinberry.--Sir John Barleycorn. Subjects; To 1700. Scottish poetry To 1700. English poetry Scottish authors. Romances, Scottish. 3 Kg.

Edition Unstated. Good copy in the original paper-covered boards with paper labels. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Limited to 175 copies. Provenance: book plates of C. Roland Kiep and Hansard Watt. Contents; History of Sir Gray-Steill.--Tales of the priests of Peblis.--Ane godlie dreame.--History of a lord and his three sons.--The ring of the Roy Robert.--King Estmere.--The battle of Harlaw.--Lichtoun's dreme.--The murning maiden.--Epistill of the hermit of Alareit.--History of Roswall and Lillian.--Poem by Glassinberry.--Sir John Barleycorn. Subjects; To 1700. Scottish poetry To 1700. English poetry Scottish authors. Romances, Scottish. 1 Kg.

Good copy, binding loose and split at spine, edges yellowed, name on half title page. Sailors include Sir F. Drake, Dampier, Lord Anson, Captain Cook.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Second Edition. (34) pages; Contemporary tan calf diced with thin, shallow diagonal lines, flat spine lettered in gilt; "ROSWALL AND LILLIAN." Half binding over marbled paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers in vivid yellow, with pattern in blue and red, all edges gilt. Small engraved armorial bookplate: "Ditton Park." A later bookplate on the first (blank) free endpaper of Walter I. Dawkins. This is a splendid copy in collectors' condition of the last of the Scottish metrical romances. Sir Walter Scott is on record stating that in his youth he had encountered individuals who still retained memories of hearing "Roswall and Lillian" chanted on the streets of Edinburgh. There appears not to be a surviving manuscript. The earliest printed edition appeared in Edinburgh in 1663. Our 1822 edition is a line-for-line reprint from the apparently unique surviving copy of that early edition, "Printed by L.H., Edinburgh, anno, 1663." Line numbers have been added in tiny numerals in the fore-edge margins for the 846-line poem. The title page is repeated within a frame constructed with type ornaments in our 1822 reprint; this older title constitutes an unusually detailed summary of the plot: "A pleasant history of Roswall and Lillian : Declaring the occasional of Roswall his removing from his native kingdom, to the kingdom of Bealm, and what befell him in his journey from his steward ; the entertainment he met with from an aged wife ; his education in school ; with his fortunate admission to be servant to Lillian the kings only daughter, with whom he fell deeply in love . his thankfull remembrance of his friends ; the number of his children, and their good fortune, all worthy reading." The New York Public Library has a copy of our 1822 edition which has a printed note on the first leaf bound before the leaf containing the single line running title): "This republication of Roswall and Lillian, which it was intended should have formed a part of the Volume of Ancient Popular Poetry now in the course of publication, has been withdrawn, in consequence of a mistake, which was too late discovered, in its having been printed on a different kind of paper from that used for the rest of the collection. It is, therefore, optional with the purchase to bind it up at the end of the Volume, or keep is by itself as a separate publication. / Edinburgh, March, 1822." The NYPL copy of "Roswall and Lillian" (a separate example, in pamphlet binding of plain boards), also has a catalogue slip cut from an unidentified booksellers catalogue -- the catalogue entry appears to describe a "proof copy" of the larger work --'Early Popular Poetry of Scotand.' edited by David Laing. This cataloguer asserts that there were 108 copies of the whole work. The price was stated as "2 guineas." The catalogue excerpt bears the item number "414." The note also asserts of the described example of "Select Remains of the Ancient Popular Poetry of Scotland" "at the end is added the reprint from the rare first edition of "Roswall and Lillian," of which only 75 copies were printed." The assertion as to the small size of the edition was apparently printed on the original wrappers for this separate pamphlet -- no longer present with our handsomely bound copy. This fact, specifying that there were 75 copies of Laing's 1822 edition of 'Ruswall and Lillian" is repeated in the two OCLC numbers for this publication we found in WorldCat, [See OCLC number 82495979 -- citing the Huntington Library; National Library of Scotland; and Edinburgh University as locations. OCLC number 927158343 adds copies at University of Birmingham, UK; and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum]. There is a remarkable handwritten note about the acquisition of the apparently unique copy of the 1663 edition now in the National Library of Scotland -- in pencil holograph on verso of its front free endpaper: "Purchased at the Roxburghe sale in 1813 for £9/9/-". We need hardly note that nine guineas was an extraordinary price for a book in 1813. That unique copy was preserved in an unusual manner. Its fourteen leaves are signed: A8 B4 C -- (as are ours). The format of the unique 1663 copy is uncertain. Wing lists its format as 4to, but ESTC and Aldis both list the format as 8vo. In the NLS copy the leaves have been cropped to 12.5 x 6.5 cm. and mounted. Its paper appears to have horizontal chain lines, but no watermark is evident. Due to the physical size of the text on the page the format is considered most likely to have been an octavo. The Ditton Park bookplate has been described by several institutional collections of bookplates -- [an escutcheon, argent (silver), divided per pale. The left armorial is charged with three fusils, gules (red). The right armorial has a chief, azure (blue), the charged with three mullets. The lower half is charged with a crowned heart, possibly a preperesentation of a Claddagh -- burin engraving ; 3.3 x 3.6 cm]. On the verso of the facing endpaper, there is the usual Ditton Park shelfmark in sanguine ink: ["L--5"]. Ditton Park belonged to the crown during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. It then passed to Sir Ralph Winwood and afterward to Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, through marriage. The old manor house was pulled down after a serious fire in 1812. By the time this thin volume was printed, the house had been rebuilt for Elizabeth Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch (1743 1827), formerly Lady Elizabeth Montagu (she had been the eldest daughter of George Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu). Facing the Ditton Park ink shelf-mark is an unrelated twentieth century bookplate of "Walter I. Dawkins" -- with short verses exhorting borrowers to return the book with "leaves not turned down." This collector was Walter Ireland Dawkins -- 1858-1936, a Maryland Judge who had been described as an eccentric, and a confirmed bachelor. Yale has a copy of an "Auction sale of library of the late Judge Walter I. Dawkins, Baltimore, Md. : cons.

First Edition. Three thick quartos; cxxii, 492 pp; xi, 516 pp; xii, 627 pp + errata page. Original publisher's purple cloth; spines faded brown; largely chipped and worn at spine ends and corners; spine volume three shows 1/3 torn detachment re-glued; hinges a bit tender; mild foxing to prelims; contents else very good throughout. [Faded gilt titles on chipped brown cloth]. 1203399. Rockville Non-Retail Listings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Folio. Pp 21. Chromolithographic title page and 142 coloured plates, Recently re-spined in vellum retaining original boards, beveled edges. Teg. No.98/250 copies, small paper impression, signed by the publisher. Extra postage will be required.

Hardcover. 4to. 26.5cm, vi,127,51[14],[10],[4 leaves], 47,[34]pp., engraved frontis. portrait of Sir William Alexander, first Earl of Stirling & 2 double-page engraved maps, woodcut ornaments & initials, on fine hand-made paper, many sections unopened, in the original diamond grain green cloth, expertly restored, original paper label slightly worn, contemporary library label on the front paste down endpaper, a fine copy, rare. (cgc) Bannatyne Club Publication No. 114. T.P.L. 36. Lande 504. Dionne II-1532. O'Dea 48. Sabin 91853. Privately printed in a limited number of copies for distribution to members of the Bannatyne Club of Scotland. The work comprises a collection of documents and previously published but very rare tracts relating to the earliest attempts made in Scotland for the establishment of colonies in North America, including a lengthy preface with Royal Letters, Acts of Privy Council, etc., 1621-1636, pp.127; Charters, under the great seal, granted to Sir William Alexander of Menstrie and Sir Robert Gordon of Lochinvar, of lands in Nova Scotia. M.DC.XXVIII, pp. 51; A brief discourse of the New-found-land (Edinburgh: 1620), by John Mason [1586-1635], second governor of Newfoundland [1615-21] and later founder of New Hampshire, [pp. 14], with facsimile title & double-page facsimile map; Nova Scotia. The Kings Patent to Sir William Alexander Knight, for the Plantation of New Scotland, in America, and his Proceedings therein. From The Fourth Part of Purchase his pilgrimes (London: 1624), by Sir William Alexander, first Earl of Stirling [1567?-1640], reprinted as The Mapp And Description Of New-England; Together with a Discourse of Plantation, and Colonies: Also A relation of the nature of the Climate, and how it agrees with our owne Country England. How neere it lyes to New-found-Land, Virginia, Nova Francia, Canada, and other Parts of the West-Indies (London: 1630), pp. [4 leaves], 47, with facsimile title-pages & facsimile double-page engraved map; Encouragements, For such as shall have intention to bee Under-takers in the new plantation of Cape Briton, now New Galloway in America (Edinburgh: 1625), by Sir Robert Gordon of Lochinvar [d.1627], [pp. 34], with facsimile title-page. "Alexander, a Scots poet and statesman, promoted a scheme to colonize Nova Scotia under an order of baronets to be created for the purpose. In 1621 he received enormous and ill-defined grants from James I, confirmed and increased in 1625 by Charles I.Gordon was one of the first to engage in a scheme to colonize Nova Scotia. He obtained a charter of the Barony in New Galloway' in Nova Scotia on Nov. 8, 1621, and a further grant of Charles Island on May 1, 1626, from which date he is reckoned a Baronet of Nova Scotia." (TPL).

FIRST EDITION of this extremely important Middle English romance. xvii, 1, 46 pp. plus 8 leaves (printed rectos only) of fine facsimiles from Wynkyn de Worde's printed edition of a much later version of the same romance. Beautifully printed on fine laid paper for members of the Abbotsford Club. FEWER THAN 100 COPIES PRINTED. 4to. Bound in the original watered silk boards. Traces of wear to binding, else FINE AND BRIGHT. Rare and important.

First Edition. First edition, 12mo, pp. [4], lvi, [3], 303, [4], 306-310; uncut; engraved frontispiece by Lizars after Sharpe, engraved portrait of Lord Eglinton, and a fine tailpiece vignette by William Geikie illustrative of Sir John Barleycorn; original red paper-covered boards, green muslin shelfback, printed paper label on spine; boards rubbed, spine sunned and with a small stain, otherwise very good and sound. This edition consisted of only 175 copies, so noted here on the printed spine label: "175 copies printed / Price 9s, extra boards.".

1/4 Morocco. Condition: Very Good. Two volumes. Gilt-lettered morocco spine over marbled boards; leaves uncut. Missing the last three items (46-48) in vol. 2. Possibly one of 72 copies. Evenly sunned to spine, a few corners lightly bumped. Nice clean condition internally with the occasional light spot or mark. Small stamp and bookplate to front endpapers. Decorative head- and tailpieces. Bindings sturdy. Very nice condition. Small 8vo.