Surgundo, First Edition (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Ex library with the usual blemishes. Light foxing especially to prelims. Extremities of binding scuffed. B00000853.

First Edition. First and only edition, 50 copies only printed, 4to, pp. [4], ix, [1], 69; engraved frontispiece of Lord and Lady Huntly executed by Sharpe from the originals by Jameson at Gordon Castle; engraved vignette title page by Strothard; typographical ornaments; contemporary quarter brown morocco lettered in gilt on spine, extremities rubbed, else very good. A metrical history of the feuds and conflicts of George, Lord Gordon, and the Gordon family, with notes. The leaf before the half-title, printed in red and black, announces that "Since these sheets were printed off, on inspecting the original manuscript, that the proper title of this poem is 'The Valiant Christian' which was omitted through the stupidity of the transcriber.".