harriet watson edited (4 resultados)

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Full cloth: Large 4to: 264pp. Over 300 illustrations, mostly in color. No names or other markings. An otherwise fine d/j with a few scrapes,including a two-inch irregular, partly open packing tear rear panal, still, Fine in V.Good d/j and most presentable in mylar jacket protector.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. 264pp, colour photographs & illustrations. Light edge wear to the DW. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good Plus/Near Fine. New Edition. 1977 & 1991, 2 volume set. PP xiv, 147, viii, 119, [iv],120, [2]; lxi, 319. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spines. Excellent condition with no inscriptions. The first volume is a facsimile reprint of the 1869 reprint of the first edition. The second volume contains extensive notes on all aspects of the poems. The Scottish Text Society 4th series, volumes 10 & 20. PLEASE NOTE - Heavyish set so may require a little extra postage for non-UK customers. James Watson's Choice Collection is the first known printed collection of Older Scots verse and as such a milestone in Scottish literary history This eclectic mixture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century pieces along with some earlier works, has examples from many key genres in Scottish literary history, such as the beast poem, the mock testament, the elegy, the "peasant brawl" poem, and the drinking song. Harriet Harvey Wood's commentary provides considered textual analysis of all the pieces in a fascinating collection which suggests links both back to Dunbar and Lyndsay, and forward to Burns and Garioch.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. 2 volumes. Printed in the years 1977-1991. Books measure 22x15.cm. Bound in original publishers green cloth, with gilt lettering. Volume 1, lightly bumped, some light wear. Both volumes in good clean firm condition. Internally, previous owners bookplate. Pages very clean. Good clean volumes. Size: 8vo.