[BALLANTYNE PRESS] [CARRIE, William and William Dobson]

The Ballantyne Press And Its Founders 1796-1908

Edinburgh: Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., 1909. First Edition. Octavo (23cm). Publisher's green cloth gilt; dustjacket; top edge gilt; x,190pp; frontispiece and nine unnumbered leaves of halftone plates; two folded facsimiles; text illus. Offsetting and slight foxing to prelims and back-matter, else a tight, clean, Very Good or better copy in the scarce original dustwrapper, rubbed at folds with a small loss at heel, slightly darkened on spine panel, still easily Very Good. Presentation inscription on front endpaper from Scottish historian William Douglas Simpson to a Robert Murdoch Laurance to the noted antiquary Robert Murdoch Lawrance, dated 1924.

A distinguished copy, from the library of scholar-bookseller William Wreden, with his printed bookplate inside front cover. History of the Ballantyne Press, best known as the publisher of Sir Walter Scott. Includes a selective bibliography of the Press's work through the 19th century. Quite uncommon in dustwrapper.

Price: $250.00

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