Gentle Shepherd by Ramsay, First Edition (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardcover, 84 pages. Spine is darkened with chipping to the top and bottom, still a good copy with clean text and sound binding. Brown cloth, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. David Allan (illustrator). 1st Edition. - With a portrait and 12 engravings. Decorative boards with gold lettering to the front and spine. Bumping, fraying and wear to the spine. Puckering to the front board. Gilt page edges. Black and white frontispiece. Presentation label to the ffep from the Young Mens Christian Association. Two further presentation inscriptions dated 1880 and 1881 respectively. Tissue guards present at the plates. Lightly foxed in places. No further inscriptions, 148pp. Clean and bright pages with illustrations by David Allan throughout. (Any digital image can be produced upon request).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. David Allan (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1880, 1st thus. Large Quarto. xix, 148pp. With a portrait frontispiece and 12 engravings. Original decorative cloth, gilt. Some minor soiling and rubbing to extremities. Binding generally square and firm. Printed end papers. Mild foxing to first and final few leaves, otherwise clean within. A 'Very Good' copy.

1st edition. Previous owner's signature. Poor copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth over marble boards. Front board detached. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description: 120p., 2 plates: illus., port.; 14.3cm.; 18mo. Notes: Illustrations: plates engraved by J. Heath after W. M. Craig dated 1795, and by Wilson after J. Roberts. Subjects: Scottish drama 18th century. Proverbs, Scottish. Other names: Cawthorn, George fl.1790-1805 [printer and bookseller]. Heath, James 1757-1834 [engraver]. Genre: Plays - English - 18th century. Scottish drama - 18th century. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

1st edition. Previous owner's signature. Poor copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth over marble boards. Front board detached. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description: 120p., 2 plates: illus., port.; 14.3cm.; 18mo. Notes: Illustrations: plates engraved by J. Heath after W. M. Craig dated 1795, and by Wilson after J. Roberts. Subjects: Scottish drama 18th century. Proverbs, Scottish. Other names: Cawthorn, George fl.1790-1805 [printer and bookseller]. Heath, James 1757-1834 [engraver]. Genre: Plays - English - 18th century. Scottish drama - 18th century. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

Half Calf - Marbled Boards. Condition: Very Good. David Allan (illustrator). First Edition. Two Works Bound in One, both printed in 1788. The Gentle Shepherd being the first printing containing David Allan's engravings, this being the smaller size with 6 cuts in total. Size 16mo, 6" x 3.5", 100 pages to William Dunbar's Poems and 96 pages to The Gentle Shepherd. Recent professional rebinding in half tan calf over marbled boards, with burgundy morocco and gilt title label to the spine, new end-papers with original end-papers also retained. With engraved frontispiece by the renowned David Allan, of a classical scene headed "Bellenden's Poems. The Scotish Poets." and 5 further full-page engravings by David Allan in The Gentle Shepherd. Condition very good, corners and edges very slightly rubbed, there is slight offsetting from the woodcuts onto the opposing pages, (including the title page for Dunbar's poems, as the frontispiece for The Gentle Shepherd has been bound in at the front of the book, opposite this page) other than this the pages are very clean throughout both works.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition by this publisher. Small octavo. 105; 24; 4pp. Green cloth illustrated and titled in gilt. Moderate erosion of cloth at spine ends, a very good copy of an attractively made book.

First Edition. Poor copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands worn; panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Spine coming away from the pages. Foxing and stains to prelims. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; vii, 95 pages. Subjects; Proverbs, Scottish. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

First Edition. Poor copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands worn; panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Spine coming away from the pages. Foxing and stains to prelims. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; vii, 95 pages. Subjects; Proverbs, Scottish. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

First Edition thus, pp.lxxiv(2)xii,105; 24(4)adverts.; engraved frontis. portrait; prelims. a little browned but generally well preserved in contemporary half calf, morocco label, by Maclehose; from the Murray library. The 24pp. Catalogue has a separate title-page. Edinburgh & Glasgow editions appeared subsequently in 1854 & '56. Scottish Poetry Catalogue Poetry.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 3 Comedies rebound as one all published in the year1796 by Cawthorn.Small brown buckram rebind with black label probably late 19th century.Guillotined by the binder quite closely. Wildair and The Plain Dealer with frontis plate as called for,The Gentle Shepherd without. Former owners signature dated 1835 and list of contents in manuscript. Very rare especially in combination. Similar to Bell's series of The British Theatre which Cawthorn was awarded rights to and allowed to use the' British Library' on his title pages, as here.

Condition: Very Good. 1st. VG black leather spine and corners, gilded edges and lettering on spine. Due to size or weight, this item may require additional postage for international or priority shipping.

Condition: Very Good. 1st. VG black leather spine and corners, gilded edges and lettering on spine.

Hardcover. F. 4to., 29cm, x,[2],111,[ii],17,18pp., plus frontis portrait and 12 aquatint plate illustrations by David Allan, complete with half-title, glossary, and 18 plates of engraved sheet music songs, from the ballad opera version, bound in contemporary full tree calf, gilt rules for bands and gilt decorations in the panels, crushed crimson morocco label, gilt titles, marbled endpapers, expertly rebacked, a fine copy (cgc) First illustrated edition with the acclaimed aquatint plates by the Scottish artist, engraver, plate-publisher and bookseller, David Allan, who was trained by the Foulis brothers in Glasgow. He had shown a talent for caricature, but it was his work in Rome (where he had received the advice and encouragement of Gavin Hamilton, to whom this book is dedicated), especially his carnival sketches, which augmented his growing reputation. After a period of portrait painting in London, he settled in Edinburgh in 1780 as director of the Trustees' Academy. Allan's illustrations of Ramsay's enormously popular Scottish pastoral drama (first published in 1725) much increased his popularity as an illustrator, and established his reputation as the artist of 'Scottish character'. Gaskell. The Foulis Press, 688. Rothschild 1732.

First edition. One of the rare hand-colored copies. Quarto. (ii) x (ii), 111p, (iii), 17p glossary, 18p engraved music. Illustrated with twelve hand-colored aquatints - the plates imprinted July 12, 1788, by D. Allan. Newly rebound in full speckled calf, the spine with red title labels, the panels in tan leather with ornaments in gilt and blind, the covers in panel design, the intermediate panel in tan with gilt corner pieces, a.e.g. Gaskell 688; Abbey. Life 244. A bit of paper toning, else a very nice copy in a handsome binding. First edition. One of the rare hand-colored copies.

First Edition thus. First Illustrated Edition of this widely popular pastoral comedy in vernacular Scots, with glossary and evocative engravings by David Allan. Large 4to: [4,including half title],x,[2],111,[3],17(glossary),[1]pp, with portrait frontispiece, 12 numbered uncolored aquatints by David Allan, and 9 engraved leaves of music and words, numbered 1-18. Text based on quarto edition of 1728. Contemporary tree calf, neatly rebacked preserving original richly gilt flat spine and red morocco lettering piece gilt. An excellent very wide-margined in a well-preserved contemporary binding, plates in rich impressions, occasional spotting to text but generally clean and bright. Gaskell (Foulis) 688. Abbey (Life) 244. Rothschild 1732. Martin 216. The Foulis Press first published The Gentle Shepherd (which was originally published by, in 1725, in Edinborough, Glasgow, and London) in 1743, then again in 1745, 1747, 1750, and 1752, before issuing this handsomely illustrated edition in 1788. The play was first performed as a ballad opera in 1747, from which the supplemental eighteen pages of engraved songs were taken. David Allan (1744-1796), known as "the Scottish Hogarth, explains in the dedication, which prominently follows directly on the title page: "It will be easily seen that I am not a master in the mechanical part of this art: but my chief intention was not to offer expensive and smooth engravings, but expressive and characteristic designs." Thus the conscious naivety of his style echoes the simplicity of the country folk whom he depicts. His twelve plates were the first use in Scotland of aquatints for book illustration. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

Half Morocco, Marbled Boards. Condition: Near Fine. First Illustrated Edition. 4to. 30 by 23 cm. iv, x, ii, 111, iii, 17, i, 18 pp. Hand-colored portrait frontis of Ramsay plus twelve hand-colored aquatint plates. Ramsay's enormously successful play dates to 1725. It celebrates rural life, particularly that in Scotland of the day. The principal character of Sir William Worthy is supposedly based on the pretenderJames Stuart. The play employs light Scottish dialect throughout. This edition of the play has an useful glossary of Scottish words, and also eighteen engraved pages of songs (with musical notation) inspired by the play. The light caricature illustrations by David Allan, which are original to this edition, perfectly complement the material, and the coloring, although possibly not arranged for by the publisher, captures the rich lushness of the countryside and its picturesque country folk. Some rubbing to the boards. Light dustsoiling within, and occasional light spotting.

First edition of this translation, 8vo, pp. viii, xi (subscriber list), [2], 103, 103 (English and Scottish text parallel on facing pages), [1], 6, [2] errata; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, manuscript title on spine; small paper shelf label at the foot of the spine; lightly rubbed, spine a little darkened, else very good. With the contemporary ownership signature of "Tweeddale" on title page - Marquis of Tweedale appears in the subscriber list. Ramsay (1686-1758), not to be confused with the portrait artist of the same name - his son - was by turns a wig-maker, poet, bookseller, publisher, editor, and playwright. He was an vocal promoter of Scots poetry and poets. His own chief composition was The Gentle Sheperd, first printed in 1725, a work that attained great popularity but went for many years without being translated into English. In her preface, Margaret Turner makes clear "it is a great disadvantage to this beautiful poem that it is written in the old rustic dialect of Scotland, which, in a short time, will probably be entirely obsolete, and not intelligible." Lowndes indicates that there were two English versions that preceded this one, one by Cornelius Vanderstop in 1777, and one by W. Ward in 1785. Given the fact that "Tweeddale" appears on the title page, the fact that John, Charles, and James Hay are listed among the book's subscribers, and the fact that members of the Hay family had for many years been marquises of Tweedale, there is a very strong likelihood that this is a subscriber's copy.