[Rarebooks] fa: FUGITIVE SCOTTISH POETRY, FISHER'S GARLAND &c. - 11 FINE PRESS Titles 1818-1827

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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A bound collection of eleven uncommon publications issued in limited editions by early nineteenth-century provincial small/fine presses:

Various Pieces of Fugitive Scotish[sic] Poetry; Principally of the Seventeenth Century. Edinburgh: Printed for W. & D. Laing, [1825]. With the half-title, title-page vignette; [4] + xxxv + [ca. 165] pp. Handsomely printed collection of 42 poems, chiefly historical; each tract has separate pagination and in most instances the appearance of the original has been closely imitated. As noted in the editor's preface, only 72 copies were printed, "nor was it thought necessary afterwards to enlarge the number, considering how little the Publick at large takes in such publications." The editor was David Laing, Scottish antiquary and librarian of the Signet Library, who produced a second series of poems in 1853.

The Angler's Progress; A Poem. Developing the Pleasures the Angler Receives from the Dawn of the Propensity in Infancy, till the Period of His Becoming a Complete Angler. Newcastle: Printed for Emerson Charnley, 1820. Title-page vignette; 8 pp. Signed "H.B." on the last page, the poem was first published in 1789 and is usually attributed to Herman Boaz. Printed in an edition limited to 296 copies.

The Tyne Fisher's Farewell to His Favourite Stream on the Approach of Winter. Newcastle: Printed for Emerson Charnley, 1824. Title-page vignette (by Thomas Bewick); 8 pp. Last page with the printed signature "December, 1824. W.G.T." (Walter Gill Thompson). Printed in an edition limited to 292 copies.

The Fisher's Garland for 1821 [and for 1822, 1823, 1824, 1825, 1826, 1827]. Newcastle: Printed for Emerson Charnley, 1821-1827. Seven separate publications, each with a woodcut title-page vignette (most or all by Thomas Bewick), each 8 pp. long, each printed in an edition of 300 copies; years 1823-26 with half-title pages; year 1827 titled The Fisher's Call. A run of the fhe first seven of these poems on the subject of fishing published annually from 1821-1845.

The Life and Death of William Powlett, First Marquis of Winchester. By Rowlande Broughton, Gent. Firs printed in 1572. Kent: Printed at the private Press of Lee Priory; by John Warwick, 1818. Engraved frontispiece, vignettes; [2], xiv, 40 pp. With a dedicatory poem by Samuel Egerton Brydges. A typically handsome "revival" from this esteemed early nineteenth-century fine press: the text is printed within a triple-rule border and is ornamented with woodcut vignettes and end-pieces. The works of the Priory Press were limited to less than 100 copies.

First editions or first editions thus, bound together in 19th-century half calf and marbled boards. Small scuffs and modest rubbing and wear to the binding; front inner hinge cracked and tender but holding; intermittent mild toning to the leaves of the first work; otherwise  quite clean and fresh. Front paste-down with the engraved armorial bookplate of Edward D. Ingraham and the small booklabel of noted book collector Peter A. Wick.