{"title":"Featured in Meta","description":"\u003cp\u003eA curated selection of Reservoir Books' finest antiquarian titles — chosen for their visual impact, provenance, and collector appeal. Featured across our Instagram and Facebook shoppable posts.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"scott-the-lay-of-the-last-minstrel-second-edition-1805-neoclassical-gilt-calf","title":"Scott — The Lay of the Last Minstrel — Second Edition, 1805 — Neoclassical Gilt Calf","description":"\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSCOTT, Walter.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Lay of the Last Minstrel. A Poem.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Second Edition. London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-Row, and A. 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Contents generally clean and fresh, with occasional minor spotting and age-toning.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwo notable closed tears, without apparent loss, affect leaves P2 (pp. 243–244) and P6 (pp. 251–252); the longer tear to p. 244 extends upwards from the lower edge into the text, while that to p. 252 is shorter.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBibliographical Note\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSecond edition, published later in the same year as the first. 334 pp., with half-title, dedication to Charles, Earl of Dalkeith, and prefatory matter.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTodd \u0026amp; Bowden 14Ad. 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The Scarborough Rowntrees were a long-established Quaker commercial family, related to the better-known York branch associated with the Rowntree confectionery business.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComparison with an autograph letter by Allan Rowntree preserved at the North Yorkshire Archives, ZSJ 4\/16\/1, showing close correlation.  The inscription is attributed with strong confidence to Allan Rowntree (1853–1940).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmall octavo. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled paper-covered boards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBinding worn but substantially original. Front board partially detached, the joint having split through much of its length and the board now remaining attached principally towards the lower portion. The upper joint is open with sewing\/support material visible. Spine dry and rubbed, with loss and abrasion at head and foot and remnants of old labels; surface wear and some loss to the marbled paper sides, particularly at the corners and edges. Corners rounded and exposed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInternally generally well preserved. Text leaves show light age-toning, occasional spotting and some occasional marginal staining, but remain clear and legible. The pamphlets retain generous margins. Allan Rowntree's pencil ownership inscription appears on the front endpaper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe binding defect is conspicuous and the volume should be handled with care, but the text block itself appears substantially intact. Offered unrestored, preserving the contemporary binding and provenance evidence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBibliographic Note\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA particularly attractive association copy. The constituent pamphlets are scarce individually, but their survival together gives the volume considerably greater historical coherence: it follows the argument from Markham's initial justification of the imprisonment through the Quaker response and subsequent replies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe later ownership by Allan Rowntree adds another layer of Quaker history extending the book's significance from the eighteenth-century tithe controversy into the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Yorkshire Quaker commercial world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReferences\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eESTC T90470; T102447; T66608; Smith, \u003cem\u003eFriends’ Books\u003c\/em\u003e, II, 964. 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The volume includes \u003cem\u003eThe Day Is Coming\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Voice of Toil\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe God of the Poor\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAll for the Cause\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Haystack in the Floods\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGoldilocks and Goldilocks\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eThe typography is particularly effective in this large-paper format. Generous margins surround the text, large initial letters introduce individual poems, and poem titles appear in the outer margins, producing a restrained and spacious page that reflects Morris’s continuing concern with the physical design of the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQuarto. 196pp.  Original cream buckram, lettered in gilt to upper board and spine. 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The elaborate title page is printed in red and black above a large engraved emblematic vignette. Although issued at Cologne by Johann Wilhelm Friessem in 1675, the volume concludes with the earlier printing statement: \u003cem\u003eColoniae excudebat Arnoldus Quentelius, anno M.DC.XVI.\u003c\/em\u003e The retention of the 1616 Arnold Quentel colophon in the 1675 Friessem edition provides an interesting bibliographical feature of the issue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title page bears an ink institutional inscription: \u003cem\u003e“Bibliothecae Antonianae Conventus Wexfordiensis … FF. Min.”\u003c\/em\u003e identifying the volume with the library of St Anthony’s Franciscan Convent at Wexford and the Friars Minor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlongside this appears the ink signature \u003cem\u003e“R. F. 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