Sir Walter Scott
Carr reported in 1987 in his History of the QTP that he had published two impressions of poems by Walter Scott (1771-1832). Two impressions have been seen which are almost identical except for the colour of the covers, so which came first is not known. There's a 50% probability of being right.
(Last updated on 22/2/2021)
SBP-SCO1: First edition?
Title: Poems. Sir Walter Scott
Publisher: J.L. Carr Publisher, 27 Mill Dale Road, Kettering
Year: (May 1985?)
ISBN: None
Size: 127 x 97 mm
Pages: 16
Staples: two
Binding: printed white matt card covers
Paper: pale brown? milky coffee?
Editor: (J.L. Carr)
Cover artist: none stated
Internal illustrations: four engravings and minor decorations
Number in series: This in no. 78 in this portable library
Colophon: sun face 1964
Telephone number: none
Printing history: none given
Number of other titles listed: none
Printed by: not stated
Content: Quotation from a letter from Jane Austen; O Caledonia!.... Poems: Proud Maisie; Lochinvar; Coronach; Melrose by moonlight; Rosabelle; Lucy Ashton's song; XXVIII; The battle of Flodden, Death of Marmion; Jock of Hazeldean; Pibroch of Donald Dhu; Patriotism Innominatus
Rear and front covers (click to enlarge)
Inside rear cover (click to enlarge)
Notes: This could be the second impression. No other volume is numbered 78. The number 77 was given to Gidner's Brief Lives, which was published in May 1985 to coincide with the publication of The Battle of Pollocks Crossing, so Scott is presumed to have been published at about the same time.
SBP-SCO2: Second impression?
Title: Poems. Sir Walter Scott
Publisher: J.L. Carr Publisher, 27 Mill Dale Road, Kettering
Year: (May 1985?)
ISBN: None
Size: 127 x 97 mm
Pages: 16
Staples: two
Binding: printed white matt card covers
Paper: pale brown? milky coffee?
Editor: (J.L. Carr)
Cover artist: none stated
Internal illustrations: four engravings and minor decorations
Number in series: This in no. 78 in this portable library
Colophon: sun face 1964
Telephone number: none
Printing history: none given
Number of other titles listed: none
Printed by: not stated
Content: Quotation from a letter from Jane Austen; O Caledonia!... Poems: Proud Maisie; Lochinvar; Coronach; Melrose by moonlight; Rosabelle; Lucy Ashton's song; XXVIII; The battle of Flodden, Death of Marmion; Jock of Hazeldean; Pibroch of Donald Dhu; Patriotism Innominatus
Rear and front covers (click to enlarge)
Inside rear cover (click to enlarge)
Notes: This could be the first impression. No other volume is numbered 78. The number 77 was given to Gidner's Brief Lives, which was published in May 1985 to coincide with the publication of The Battle of Pollocks Crossing, so Scott is presumed to have been published at about the same time.