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1856AQ28599Glasgow: Printed for the booksellers 1856. 24pp. Woodcut on title page. Title within ornamental border. Six bifolia unopened at head as issued. A trifle creased and dusty. A Glaswegian chapbook collection of succinct anecdotes on a remarkably diverse range of subjects from 'gipsy wit' to 'security against drowning'. Though often containing a modicum of useful wisdom some of the selections are designed merely to entertain for example under the heading 'Very Funny' one finds the following quip: 'Father do they light up railway carriages at night with gas ' 'No my dear with train oil. ' Presumably one had to be there. This edition one of several appearing at Glasgow and Alnwick in the mid-nineteenth century appears unrecorded by OCLC or COPAC. . 12mo. Printed for the booksellers unknown
18228125Edinburgh: Printed and published by D. Webster and Son 1822. FIRST EDITION 12mo pp. ii v i 324. Later half maroon roan purple textured cloth boards spine divided by double gilt rules lettered in gilt other compartments with central thistle tool in gilt edges sprinkled red. Some foxing repair to blank margin of title-page where ownership inscription was rubbed away. Binding a touch rubbed to extremities. Remnants of ink ownership inscription to title-page a few pencil notes to rear pastedown. The scarce first edition of this gathering of ‘Anecdotes Bon Mots Jests Puns and Droll Stories. which it is hoped will show that the Scots are possessed of some wit both in spirit and substance’ as the editor and publisher David Webster notes in his preface. He explains that this is a ‘miscellany not ill suited to its title “a haggis” which to our northern palates is a very agreeable dish although the materials of which it is composed are like old chaos jumbled together without order or regularity’. Library Hub and OCLC only note eleven copies in British and US institutions. Printed and published by D. Webster and Son hardcover
182626426Edinburgh: Printed by John Pillans for John Thomson; and Baldwin Cradock and Joy London 1826 1826. First edition. OCLC records ten copies including a second or variant issue. Some smudges and stains in the text; very good copy. 8vo later green half calf green cloth boards red morocco label gilt decorations and lettering t.e.g. others untrimmed. Half-title and errata leaf present. A collection of almost 90 literary anecdotes including ones about Burns Byron Shelley Boswell and John Gay interspersed with occasional miscellaneous pieces such as the account of the "Hungry Poet" with two of his poems. Almost all the pieces are unsigned but at least two are attributed: A. Cunningham on the last moments of Roberts Burns and Walter Scott on the "Character of Lord Byron." There was a variant or probably second issue with the title augmented slightly to The Curious Book; or Literary Relics. Edinburgh: Printed by John Pillans for John Thomson; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London, 1826 unknown
1861059263London Uk: Henry G. Bohn 1861. 3rd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Frontispieces. Xviii 514 ; Xvi 523 Pp. Two Volumes. Third And Best Edition Corrected And With Additions. Three Quarter Maroon Morocco Over Marbled Boards Matching Edges And Endpapers Spine Ornately Gilt5 Bands Two Morocco Labels. Light Usage Hinges Tight No Marks Or Bookplates. <br/> <br/> Henry G. Bohn hardcover
