Beschreibung:

Scottish Song Illustrated. An illustrated manuscript book by H.J, circa 1880, 83 pp., written throughout in a neat hand to rectos and versos, containing works from 11 Scottish poets, each with a short biography followed by a small selection of their poems, interspersed with 23 watercolours laid down, and black and white illustrations throughout, poets comprising: Allan Ramsey, Lady Anne Barnard, Robert Burns Anne Hunter, Hector Macneil, John Mayne, James Hogg Thomas Pringle Robert Tannahill, Susanna Blamire, and anonymous, leaves guarded, minor spotting, some pages detached, marbled endpapers with Riviere & Son stamp to verso of front endpaper, top edge gilt, near contemporary gilt binding by Riviere & Son, some wear to extremities, boards lightly marked, small neat repairs to head and tail of spine, folio (48 x 30 cm) (Quantity: 1)