Search Results: Scotland from Charles Agvent

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Light wear. Very Good. Publisher's blue cloth. Illustrated with 5 plates. Chapters on the forbidden pastimes of a recluse in 12th century England, a journey to Scotland in 1435, Paul Scarron, Voltaire's visit to England, and more. Jusserand was the French ambassador to the United States during World War I and also a perceptive critic of English literature. In 1916, he received the first Pulitzer Prize for history. Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown and on the front pastedown the small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of coal baron La Fayette Butler, many of whose books were left untouched from the time of their purchase by him until their sale in the summer of 1999.

London, Edinburgh & Glasgow: A. Fullarton & Co, [@1844]. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor foxing to a few plates but most plates clean. Rubbing to spine, edges, and corners. Very Good. Two small folio (8-1/2" x 10-5/8") volumes bound in half brown morocco leather and cloth with matching leather corners, gilt-decorated and lettered spines, marbled edges. Illustrated with a steel-engraved title page and 79 steel-engraved views. Apparently lacking the printed title page and half-title page

London: George Virtue, 1839. Hardcover. Scattered foxing but most plates clean. Spine worn, some splitting joints but covers tight. Overall Very Good. W. H. Bartlett. Two quarto (8-1/4" x 10-1/2") volumes bound in one full gilt-decorated morocco leather volume. Illustrated with two steel-engaved title pages, three portraits, and 84 engraved views and engravings after paintings. Many of the engravings are views by W. H. Bartlett. There is no printed title page, though there are two engraved title pages. No information could be found for this particular title which is similar to Wilson's book issued the next year.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Armorial bookplate of Henry Payne McIntosh on the front pastedown with an old auction clipping on the front endpaper. On the blank page opposite the page with the inscription is written in dark ink: "Bangs & Co. Sale, Jany 4/1900 $10xx." Bright, clean, and Fine. Gilt and black-stamped green cloth with all edges stained red (4" x 6"); x, 246 pages. The first volume, of two, of poems about Scotland edited by Longfellow and including contributions by Burns, Scott, Wordsworth, and others. INSCRIBED on the verso of the dark green front endpaper and SIGNED by the editor: "Professor Boyeson/with kind regards/of the Editor./Jan. 7, 1877./Henry W. Longfellow." Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen was a Norwegian-American author and college professor. He is best remembered for his novel GUNNAR: A TALE OF NORSE LIFE, which is generally considered to have been the first novel by a Norwegian immigrant in America.