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Scott, Sir Walter "COLLECTED POEMS" Five volume set -- Ballads and Lyrical Pieces; The Lay of the Last Minstrel; Marmion; The Lady of the Lake; The Vision of Don Roderick
New York Ezra Sargeant 1811 Leather Bound Very Good
24mo; Bound as a uniform set, in contemporary full calf - decoratively stained in an "autumn leaf" pattern, flat spines paneled by sets of gilt rules, with two black leather labels lettered in gilt. The upper labels state: "SCOTT'S WORKS" and each of the lower labels gives a title for the volume; the panels in the centers have delicately gilt-stamped volume numbers in Roman numerals: I - V. Gilt stamped lyre tools appear in the centers of the top and bottom panels. The covers have elegant frames made up of repeated scrollwork tools within pairs of gilt rules. There are pink marbled endpapers, and the edges of the text blocks are carefully cut and decoratively marbled. In all, an elegant Federal binding for this small set. The title pages all have the name of the New York publisher Ezra Sargeant in the lead position. (Each of the first four volumes list a co-publisher in Baltimore; the first volume is P. H. Nicklin, the second through fourth list J. Cushing as the Baltimore partner; Ezra Sargeant's name appears alone in the fifth volume). There are engraved frontispieces to each of the first four volumes. The versos of each title page have the printer's slug of "D. and G. Bruce, Slote-Lane New York." David Bruce had learned the printer's trade in Edinburgh and later came to America, where after a few years he was joined by his brother George in establishing the firm of D. & G. Bruce, printers. Within two years, they would issue the first stereotyped book in the United States. Considering that Walter Scott had a long friendship with the printer James Ballantyne (who printed his first works and later entered into a full business partnership with Scott), it is interesting to ask whether David Bruce ever met Walter Scott during his years in Scotland. Scott was the first English-language author to achieve a world-wide audience. His writing career neatly divides into two phases: first as a poet (until 1813, when he turned down the offer to be named Poet-Laureate), then as a novelist (starting with the amazing success of "Waverly" in 1814). This elegant set does not include the last of Scott's poetical works ("The Bridal of Triermain" - 1813). Alas, Ezra Sargeant died in 1812. He had a busy last full year in 1811, in addition to this set of Scott's poetical works, he also shared responsibility for a nine volume set of Shakespeare. The printers, D. & G. Bruce, most likely produced some copies of most of these volumes with title pages set for the Baltimore partners. As evidence for this, one can find OCLC 207550977 (Boston Public Library) with a title page listing J. Cushing as the lead publisher and Ezra Sargeant in the secondary position. An elegant 24mo set (gathered in 12's) in a fine Federal period American binding, an interesting product of Scottish trained printers and a vigorous young New York publisher in his last full year of work. [Ezra Sargeant 1775-1812]. With the elegant contemporary printed book labels of Thomas Brown mounted to the verso of each front-free endpaper. (The name appears in italic type, surrounded by a pair of rows of type-ornaments). At least one volume has a pencil signature of "Sarah H. Brown." Some rubbing and minor wear to the bindings, but the set is sound and quite handsome.
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Scott, Sir Walter The Lady of the Lake: A Poem in Six Cantos Stereographed in the Advanced Corresponding Style of Standard Phonography
New York Andrew J. Graham 1890 First Edition Hardcover Very Good-
12mo; 1 p.l., 151, 151, [303]-328 pages; Publisher's dark green cloth, front cover lettered in gilt within a framework of rules in blind, pale yellow endpapers. The title page states: "Stereographed in the Advanced Corresponding Style of Standard Phonography, with a Key." The pagination is unusual; following the title page and a facing wood-engraved frontispiece, the text appears with alternating leaves -- one with the standard English text, the next leaf entirely in shorthand characters. Each set of these interleaved texts has an identical pagination - (151 pp.) The effect is to have the English text facing its shorthand counterpart. The system used is essentially Pitman shorthand, first introduced in 1837 by Sir Isaac Pitman, M.P., and improved many times since. Pitman's system uses a phonemic orthography. For this reason, it is sometimes known as phonography, (meaning 'sound writing' in Greek). Pages (303) - 328 are devoted to the "Notes" set in standard English. There are three pages of ads for Andrew J. Graham's shorthand publications at the rear. Pitman shorthand was a standard system used world-wide when this small book was published. But two years earlier, in 1888, a new system of shorthand writting was invented by John Robert Gregg, with letters completely based on elliptical figures and lines that bisect them. Pitman uses line thickness and position to discriminate between two similar sounds, but Gregg shorthand uses the same thickness throughout and discriminates between similar sounds by the length of the stroke. This copy has an ownership signature on the front paste-down endpaper: "Apl 15/ 96 / Frank O. Dwyer / Willimantic Ct / 'Boni soli sunt beati'" The binding shows modest wear, mostly limited to rubbing along the hinges and fraying to the corners. The front endpapers are slightly soiled and fingermarked. Internally clean and sound. OCLC 20067004 - (apparently locating just the Library of Congress copy). According to a catalogue of ads in another of Graham's publications, the Andrew J. Graham shorthand edition of "The Lady of the Lake" was comparatively expensive, offered at $2 in cloth, (or $4 in morocco binding).
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