[Rarebooks] FS: Scott, First edition of MARMION

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Scott, Walter, Sir. MARMION. A TALE OF FLODDEN FIELD. Edinburgh: 
Printed by J. Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co., 
Edinburgh; and William Miller, and John Murray, London, 1808. [10], 
377, [1], cxxvi pp. 4to (26 cm). Full fine tooled pebbled calf, 
raised bands, gilt decorated compartments, outer gilt rules, 
elaborate inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, sewn-in 
bookmark.  First edition, first impression. Second state of the first 
impression with cancels on three leaves (c1, B1, X3). One of 2000 
copies issued. NCBEL III, 370. Ruff 59 (see pp.49-53).

The poem concerns Lord Marmion who is after a favorite of Henry VIII, 
the wealthy heiress, Clara de Clare. He implicates her fiance, Sir 
Ralph De Wilton, in a treasonable plot, but eventually De Wilton has 
Marmion unmasked just as the battle of Flodden Field (one of the 
greatest disasters in Scottish history [1513]) begins. Marmion is 
killed in the battle while De Wilton regains his honor, estates, and 
Clara. The book was a tremendous success, despite its exceedingly 
high price, with at least three editions issued the same year.

Front board very tender but threads still holding, joints rubbed, 
some minor rubbing along top edges and a few bands, otherwise a 
crisp, tight copy, gilt glowing, with some faint scattered foxing. A 
beautiful production. [26728]   $500.00

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