Scotland & Bibliography. Sibbald (James), Chronicle of Scottish Poetry; from the Thirteenth Century, to the Union of the Crowns: To which is added a Glossary, four volume set, first edition thus, Edinburgh: Printed for J. Sibbald, et al, 1802, volume I with Prospectus of the First Complete Edition of the Works of William Dunbar, 3pp, and a 5pp review of Sibbald's Scottish Poetry bound-in, contemporary calf, some wear, 8vo in 4s; Ancient Scottish Poems. Published from the MS. of George Bannatyne, MDLXVIII, first edition, Edinburgh: Printed by A. Murray and J. Cochran, 1770, half-title, contemporary calf, the upper-cover detached and with a repaired gutter at ffep, the rest rubbed and worn, 12mo; Bannatyne (George) & Ritchie (William Tod, editor), The Bannatyne Manuscript, four volume set, mixed editions, Edinburgh & London: Scottish Text Society, 1928-1933, original gilt-lettered roan over green cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut, loosely-inserted envelope of errata slips, 8vo; idem., another copy of volume I, 1934, original wrappers, uncut, 8vo; Laing's and Carew Hazlitt's Early Popular Poetry of Scotland and the Northern Border, two volume set, 1895, half-titles, frontispieces, original publisher's cloth, uncut, William Tod Ritchie's copies, 8vo; Henderson's Scottish Vernacular Literature, second edition, 1900, original cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut, William Tod Ritchie's copy, 8vo; Henley's Burns, 1898, original wrappers, 8vo; Carter (John) & Pollard (Graham), An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets, association copy, first edition, London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1934, original cloth only, 8vo; & Hanson's Government and the Press, 1695-1763, first edition, Oxford University Press, 1936, original dustjacket, some chips, cloth boards, 4to, (16) Provenance: 1st: 1) Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), antiquarian and bibliophile, founding member of the Roxburghe Club (member no. 11); his gilt-embossed armorial bookplate to volumes I & III-IV only; 2) William Tod Ritchie, Scottish bibliographer; his early 20th c ownership inscriptions. 2nd: 1) J. Wilson, Professor of Phrenology, early-mid 19th c macabre bookplate; 2) George Graham, 19th c book label. 8th: Sir Frederic George Kenyon GBE, KCB, TD, FBA, FSA (1863-1952), President of The British Academy (1917-1921), Director and Principal Librarian of The British Museum (1909-30), and Roxburghe Club member no. 187; loosely-inserted typed copy of a letter excusing himself from a Roxburghe Club meeting at Lord Aldenham's house (to whom the letter is addressed) and proceeding to refute Carter's & Pollard's accusations of forgery against Thomas James Wise, book collector and fellow Roxburghe member.