[Maidment, James]

Estimate

1,000 - 2,000 USD

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Description

[Maidment, James]
Roxburghe Revels, and other relative papers; including answer to the attack on the memory of the late Joseph Haslewood … with specimens of his literary productions. Edinburgh: printed for private circulation, 1837
Ink and paper

4to (10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.; 268 x 208 mm). Title printed in red and black; spotting and foxing, fingermarks on page 39. Contemporary green cloth, green paper on board and spine; rubbed.

Provenance

acquisition: Bernard Quaritch

Catalogue Note

First edition.

The book was published after the death of Joseph Haslewood, founding member of the Roxburghe Club, and the sale of his library that contained his manuscript account of these early activities, "Roxburghe Revels." Extracts and critical comments on Haslewood and the club subsequently appeared in The Athenaeum in 1834. Maidment then prepared this defense, presenting and discussing his friend's remarks. The appendices include the nonexhaustive catalogue of the sale of Haslewood's library as well as an answer to Didbin's attack on him.