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Gibbon, Lewis Grassic [James Leslie Mitchell] [Ray Mitchell; Seumas Stewart; Bill Craig]Biblio.com

A Scots Hairst: Essays and Short Stories.

1967réf. 151457London: Hutchinson 1967. First edition of this posthumous collection of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s shorter works. Octavo original publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Boldly signed by his wife Ray Mitchell on the front free endpaper. From the library of bibliophile Seumas Stewart a respected figure in the field of book collecting and bibliophilic writing best known for his work Book Collecting 1947. Ray Mitchell signed A Scots Hairst for Stewart in exchange for a signed copy of his work Book Collecting which he autographed for her with a tribute to her late husband. Together with two autograph letters signed by Ray Mitchell to Seumas Stewart regarding the exchange of books the paperback of A Scots Hairst and the adaptation of "Sunset Song" for BBC Scotland. Accompanied by a typed letter to Stewart signed by scriptwriter Bill Craig and dated March 5 1976 regarding the dramatization of "Sunset Song" for BBC and Stewart's praise for the script. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A wonderful association. Lewis Grassic Gibbon the pen name of James Leslie Mitchell 1901–1935 was a Scottish novelist and essayist best known for his powerful depictions of rural life and social change in early twentieth-century Scotland. His most celebrated work Sunset Song 1932 the first novel in the Scots Quair trilogy portrays the tensions between tradition and modernity through the life of a young woman in a farming community. Writing under both his real name and pseudonym Mitchell combined regional realism with broader political and historical concerns often addressing themes of class industrialization and identity. Despite his relatively short life his work has had a lasting impact on Scottish literature and is regarded as a significant contribution to modern British fiction. Hutchinson paperback

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 6 vols set

1782réf. LL6375W. Strahan & T. Cadell 1782. ~DATE RANGE: 1782-1788 ~FULL PAGINATION: vii 13 704 8 640 8 640 viii 8 620 8 684 10 646 52pp ~First edition of vols IV-VI; new edition of vols I-III. Vol. I is 1782 ESTC T78359 Norton 26. Vols II & III are 1787 ESTC N36543 Norton 27. Vols IV-VI are 1788 ESTC T78365 Norton 29. Frontis portrait to vol. I by Hall after Joshua Reynolds. 3 maps 1 to vol. II; 2 folding to rear of vol. V. Half titles to vols II-VI. Index and errata page to vol. VI. Early full tan calf boards framed in double gilt fillets. Ornate gilt decor to board edges and turn-ins. Rebacked in near-matching tan calf. Raised bands and brown gilt label per spine. 4tos 22 x 27.3cm. Mild wear to board corners and edges. Hinges just starting to crack in vol.6 only other hinges sound. All edges marbled in Stormont pattern reinforced at gutters with old repair probably when rebacked. Hinges sound. Early replacement blank endpages some with 1819 watermark. All vols signed to top t.p. by G. Kinnear perhaps George Kinnear 1751-1823 of the Edinburgh-based banking family. Old repair to fore-edge of map of the Western Roman Empire with minor loss to edge of image. Small 1cm single tear to edge of each folding map. Old repairs / reinforcements to fore-edges of sigs a-a3 in vol. I with a little damp-rippling to edges of these same pages but no loss to text. Mild occasional foxing severe on a few pages. A very few old annotations to margins in some vols. Gibbon's masterpiece first published between 1776 and 1788 'occupies the summit of European Enlightenment historiography'; 'remarkable for the way Gibbon pushed at the edges of received opinions and found fresh and fruitful ways of linking approaches and subjects which elsewhere lay unconnected' ODNB. A handsome solid square set. ~Robust packaging. Overseas orders trackable on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. Hardback. Hardback. Very Good/Fine. c. 700pp. per vol. W. Strahan & T. Cadell Hardcover

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THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. With Notes by Dean H.H. Milman

1846réf. 34472London: John Murray 1846. 6 volumes. Illustrated with fine large folding maps of the Western and Eastern Roman Empire the Migrations of the Barbarians into the empire and many other maps at the end of each volume including among others Constantinople Environs of Rome The Eastern Empire divided Italy Europe Asia and Africa at the time of Charlemagne the Mohammedan Empire the Crusades and Ancient Rome with most accented in colour. 8vo in fine and handsome period bindings of three-quarter polished calf over marbled paper covered boards the spines very handsomely gilt tooled within six compartments and featuring large central gilt devices surrounded by elaborate gilt tooling filling the compartments two compartments with contrasting black and brown morocco labels gilt lettered and ruled all separated by raised bands decorated with gilt stippling marbled endpapers all edges marbled. xliii 2 600; xii 559; xv 1 543 1; xv 1 524; xv1 506; xv 1 498 pp. A very fine set internally fresh and clean and in excellent state of preservation looking for the most part unused the handsome bindings with just a touch of age very bright and solid and attractive. A very handsome PERIOD BOUND set of the greatest historical work ever undertaken. Adams in his Manual of Historical Literature states that 'the superiority of this edition is very great not simply in its material appearance but also in its more essential characteristics. It has excellent maps and it embodies the notes of Milman'. It was in Italy while "musing amid the ruins of the Capital" that Gibbon formed the plan of his history. Originally published in six volumes from 1776 to 1788 Gibbon's fine scholarship has remained for the most part unchallenged. The work's numerous reprintings throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are evidence of its popularity and historical accuracy. "For twenty-two years Gibbon was a prodigy of steady and arduous application. His investigations extended over almost the whole range of intellectual activity for nearly fifteen-hundred years. And so thorough were his methods that the laborious investigations of German scholarship the keen criticisms of theological zeal and the steady researches of two centuries have brought to light very few important errors in the results of his labors. But it is not merely the learning of his work learned as it is that gives it character as a history. It is also that ingenious skill by which the vast erudition the boundless range the infinite variety and the gorgeous magnificence of the details are all wrought together in a symmetrical whole. It is still entitled to be esteemed as the greatest historical work ever written" Adams Manual of Historical Literature pp. 146-147. The success of the work was immediate. "I am at a loss" Gibbon wrote "how to describe the success of the work without betraying the vanity of the writer. The first impression was exhausted in a few days; a second and third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand and the bookseller's property was twice invaded by the pyrates of Dublin. My book was on every table and almost on every toilette." Publication of this grand work placed Gibbon at the "very head of the literary tribe" in Europe according to Adam Smith. John Murray hardcover

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