Minstrelsy Of Scottish Border/1st Ed./walter Scott/1802

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WITH A FEW OF MODERN DAYS, FOUNDED UPON LOCAL TRADITION

KELSO: Printed By James Ballantyne, For T. Cadell, Jun. And W. Davies, Strand, London; And Sold by Manners and Miller, and A. Constable, Edinburgh, 1802-1803. First Edition. Published in an edition of 800 copies. 3 volumes of which volumes 1 and 2 are the complete first edition as issued in 1802. This set also includes the third volume, in a similar binding, first published in the 1803 second edition. Volumes 1 & 2 are bound in contemporary full brown tree calf leather with red & black spine labels. Volume 3 is in full calf leather. Minstrelsy marked Scott's true literary debut, written and published as a collection of the traditional ballads that Scott had been collecting in yearly trips to the Borders since 1792. Overall, a very attractive copy of the first edition of Scott's first major work

. The volume's success laid the foundations of James Ballantyne's career as a printer. 'I shall ever think', he wrote, 'the printing the Scottish Minstrelsy one of the most fortunate circumstances of my life' (letter to Scott, March 30, 1802). The Minstrelsy sold well on both sides of the border, and the first edition was exhausted in six months. German, Danish, and Swedish translations followed, and North American editions gave Scott his first taste of transatlantic fame. A classic work. There are numerous close-up pictures of the contents given below; please click on them for a detailed description (See Scans below). Please take some time to view the 50+ pictures in detail, in order to gain a full idea of the contents and condition. Compilation:

Scott's interest in the folk traditions of the Border region stemmed from early childhood stays at Sandyknowe, when he heard ballads from the lips of his grandmother Barbara Scott and his favourite Aunt Jenny. As an older boy, he thrilled to the medieval ballads collected in Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. Scott began collecting ballads himself in yearly trips to the Borders from 1792 onwards. He first had the idea of publishing a collection in 1796, but it was not until he renewed contact with his old schoolfriend, the printer James Ballantyne, that the idea bore fruit. In 1799 Ballantyne had published An Apology for Tales of Terror which contained ballads by Robert Southey, Matthew 'Monk' Lewis, John Aikin, and Scott himself (see Literary Beginnings). He now welcomed the idea of publishing a volume devoted entirely to ballads, a genre rendered newly fashionable by Wordsworth's and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads (1798). Scott fitted his ballad-collecting trips around his duties as Sheriff of Selkirkshire (see Professional Life). In addition to his own (often hazardous) travels in Ettrick Forest and Liddesdale, he received assistance from other ballad-collectors, including John Leyden, Robert Jamieson, Robert Surtees, George Ellis, and Bishop Percy himself. Scott's approach to authenticating, editing, and arranging material caused controversy at the time and falls short of modern standards of scholarship. He relied on an innate 'feeling' for the genuine article and did not hesitate to 'improve' ballads, changing words, inserting new stanzas, mending rhymes and rhythms, fusing various versions, and sometimes setting old legends to verses of his own. Scott argued that the ballad was, by definition, a fluid form, to which each interpreter gave his or her own stamp. He insisted that he was always faithful to the spirit of a ballad, and valued readability over antiquarian exactitude. Scott was also careful not to deal too rude a shock to the aesthetic sensibilities of readers brought up on neoclassical verse. Scott originally intended to concentrate on ballads celebrating historical incidents, particularly those connected with the old Border raids, but the first two-volume edition of the Minstrelsy, which appeared on February 24, 1802, eventually contained twenty-nine historical pieces and twenty-four romantic ballads, together with a handful of 'imitations' mostly by Scott himself (see Scott the Poet for further information). Almost immediately after publication, Scott set about preparing a third volume which would be comprised entirely of modern imitations of traditional ballad forms. Contributors included Matthew Lewis, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (portrayed, right), Anna Seward, and Scott himself. Among the pieces that Scott originally intended for the third volume was a tale of Border rivalry which rapidly grew too long for the Minstrelsy and would eventually appear as Scott's first verse narrative The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Along with the third volume, Scott also began preparing a second edition of the first two which would include further traditional ballads gathered on his own travels or sent to him by fellow antiquaries. While ballad-hunting to this purpose in Selkirkshire in April 1802, Scott made the acquaintance of the young farmer, William Laidlaw, later to become a valued member of the Abbotsford 'family'. Laidlaw showed Scott a copy of 'Auld Maitland', a ballad Scott had heard of but so far never seen. Laidlaw had been given the copy by one of his shepherds, James Hogg, whom Scott visited shortly afterwards, the beginning of an important literary friendship. On May 25, 1803, the second edition of the Minstrelsy was published, comprising revised versions of vols. I-II along with the 'modern' third volume. A third, expanded edition appeared in 1806, a fourth in 1810 (containing, for all Scott's feel for authenticity, three forgeries by Surtees), and the fifth and final edition in 1812, containing ninety-six ballads, forty-three printed for the first time. From: http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/works/poetry/minstrelsy.html

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CONDITION REPORT: A rare book set in the original tree calf leather boards, professionally & sympathetically re-backed using fine matching brown polished calf leather, gilt & blind decorated spine with a red & black gilt lettered morocco labels, volume 3 has the original spine (See Scans below), some wear/tear/scuffing to covers, spine ends & corners (See Scans below), pages are unusually clean & bright (See Scans below), the binding is tight & hinges are intact (See Scans below). Some edge wear to spine ends & corners of the original Dust Jacket whose spine is darkened (See Scans below). There are many close-up pictures for your kind perusal. Please click on any of the 50+ images above & below in the listing for enlarged close-up pictures of details, virtues & flaws (See Scans below).

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