Mlauchlan Rev Thomas (5 results)

Condition: VG. Edinburgh 1857. 12mo., 168pp., original cloth. Small signature on front free blank. VG, a few spots on front and rear covers, some offsetting on endpapers.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Book of the Dean of Lismore is a very important manuscript witness to Gaelic literary culture in the early sixteenth century. A manuscript made by James MacGregor, Vicar of Fortingall in Perthshire, and Dean of Lismore in Argyll, probably under the patronage of the Campbells of Glenorchy. A scholarly introduction by James Skene, and a selection of 69 Gaelic poems. The poems are given in three forms: (1) their original Gaelic form (as they appear in the manuscript in their curious orthography); (2) in standard Gaelic orthography; (3) in English translation. Useful notes throughout. Ex library copy with usual wear marks, stamp on half-title page, damage to the front endpaper, but stitching is sound. Light pencil annotation to each poem, usefully helping the reader to connect the Gaelic original to its translation.

Binding sound, text unmarked. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No dustwrapper. Original brown cloth, unfaded. 9cm tear to cloth along rear spine edge. Rear endpaper cracked at gutter, hinge loose. Bookplate and pencil owner's signature. Robust packaging. Tracking is always added to USA orders. It can be added to other overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 1st edition. Binding sound, text unmarked. Size: xcvi, 163pp.

Cloth. Condition: Good-. No Jacket. First Edition. red/brown cloth, xcvi, 163 pp, + errata pg & publisher's catalogue (24 pp), notes, index, facsimiles; sunning to spine with backstrip barely holding on left side, original bookseller's paper label on front pastedown, original binder's label on rear pastedown, some cocking to spine, some wear to spine top & bottom, later owners' names on half-title, facsimiles are no longer foldouts, but rather have been neatly bound in, some splitting/parting to front & rear hinges, minor soiling. Laid in is a later bill of sale from the Edinburgh antiquarian bookseller Douglas & Foulis. [14].

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Edmonston & Douglas, Edinburgh 1862 / Hardback (163 pages; errata slip bound in at rear). UK First Edition and First Impression. Near Fine Hardback Original, Half bound in leather with dyed red text-block (a few minor spots to endpapers and one small inscription to the half-title page, else Fine). A compilation of poetry made by James MacGregor (circa 1480-1551), Dean of Lismore and notary public working in Fortingall, Perthshire. The volume contains mostly Gaelic poetry, besides some miscellaneous items in Scots, Latin and English.The Gaelic texts are not written in the Gaelic hand and spelling that was common at the time. Instead, both orthography and handwriting are based on 16th-century Scots writing, which adds a special linguistic interest to the volume. It allows us an insight into the writer's own regional Perthshire pronunciation, which would normally have been hidden behind the classical Gaelic spelling. A Fine tight clean First Printing of this culturally significant title. PLEASE NOTE, INTERNATIONAL BUYERS MAY INCUR EXTRA POSTAGE DUE TO WEIGHT.