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[HOLFORD, Margaret]. Wallace; or, the Fight of Falkirk; a Metrical Romance. London: J. M'Creery for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1809.
4o (270 x 215 mm). (Intermittent spotting.) Contemporary russia, covers with triple gilt-ruled border and panel with gilt cornerpieces, large gilt coat-of-arms of Thomas Wildman, Newstead Abbey added in the center, gilt edges concealing a FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF ROSLIN CASTLE, MIDLOTHIAN (upper cover detached); brown levant morocco gilt pull-off case by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Provenance: J. Wildman (signature in ink on title page); Edward Laurence Doheny (bookplate); Estelle Doheny (bookplate; her sale Christie's New York, 17 October 1988, lot 1328).
FIRST EDITION of this poem depicting William Wallace in the Fight of Falkirk during the First Scottish War of Independence. A later battle took place in Roslin, Midlothian Scotland during that war. Weber I, p.150.
4o (270 x 215 mm). (Intermittent spotting.) Contemporary russia, covers with triple gilt-ruled border and panel with gilt cornerpieces, large gilt coat-of-arms of Thomas Wildman, Newstead Abbey added in the center, gilt edges concealing a FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF ROSLIN CASTLE, MIDLOTHIAN (upper cover detached); brown levant morocco gilt pull-off case by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Provenance: J. Wildman (signature in ink on title page); Edward Laurence Doheny (bookplate); Estelle Doheny (bookplate; her sale Christie's New York, 17 October 1988, lot 1328).
FIRST EDITION of this poem depicting William Wallace in the Fight of Falkirk during the First Scottish War of Independence. A later battle took place in Roslin, Midlothian Scotland during that war. Weber I, p.150.