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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATA
Since the impressions of the first edition run in contrary directons—with the super-royal size containing the plates in the earliest but text in the latest state and the medium size with plates in the latest but text in the earliest state—it seems best to list first the largest size, as being the one most desired by collectors.
A. FIRST EDITION
- Issue 1 17 parts published separately June 1, 1812—Sept. 1, 1817. [See fn.2]
- Issue 2 First 4 parts in 1 vol. Published July 1, 1813.
- Issue 3 First 9 parts in 1 vol. Published Dec. 1, 1814. No copies of these three issues observed.
- Issue 4 Complete edition of 17 parts in 2 vols. Published Sept. 1, 1817
Titles (in earliest state of 4th issue)
THE | BORDER ANTIQUITIES | OF | ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND; | COMPRISING | SPECIMENS OF ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE, | AND OTHER VESTIGES OF FORMER AGES, | ACCOMPANIED
Normal collation (excluding plates): 4to. with text in twos. I: i 2 a4 b-q4 B-M2 N1 O-Q2 R1 S-2B2. II: i 2 2C-3I2 a-m 4 n 2 χ1 o-q 2.
I: 1 title, 2 Davison colophon, 3 note [applicable to the 3d issue, in 9 parts], 4 blank; i half-title, iii iv-cxxvii introduction, cxxviii blank; 1 2-92 text, parts 1-6. II: 1 half-title, 2 Davison colophon, 3 title, 4 blank; 93 94-209 text, parts 7-17 [12-17 unnumbered], 210 blank, 211-212 list of plates; i-iii iv-ci appendix, ci Ballantyne colophon, cii blank, ciii-cxiii index, cxiv Davison colophon.
In this edition only, all numbers through the 11th are labeled "Vol. I." followed by the part reference.
Press-figures (as represented in more than one impression): Introduction: xxxii-11 xxxix-3 xlvi-6 lvi-3 lx-3 lxx-3 lxxv-6 lxxxv-3 xcii-3 ci-8 cix-3 cxvii-1 cxxvi-8. Text: 4-1 8-6 16-1 20-1 24-1 27-1 32-1. Appendix: vii-3 x-11 xviii-6 xlvii-3 or 6 lvi-6 lxiv-8 lxxiv-6 lxxxiv-1 xciii-6 c-8.
Watermarks in each impression: see Table.
- 1. Super-Royal impression. Size uncut (Todd copy) 38 x 27.3
cm.
Typography: Vol. I only, imprint corrected to ISLINGTON;
Page lvi of introduction in one copy (B.M.) footnote reset and last
word of text pointed: adherents*
Press-figure unique to this impression, introduction xxxii-3. No
figures in introduction xlvi or (if fn. reset) lvi; none in
appendix vii, x.
Plates: 1st state. No plate impression. Unfinished etchings
printed, with one exception,[17]
directly on heavy cartonnage, generally before letters and rules,
with persons and animals sketched in bare outline. Some plates,
however, contain double rules without letters or letters without
double rules; and one, an exterior view of Lanercost Priory (facing
p. 42) has only one rule around the picture. These, the true
proofs, were not announced for sale.
2d state. Plate impression 35.2 x 26 cm. Finished illustrations,
with letters and rules, on India paper mounted on cartonnage.
Occasionally when the paper is too small to accommodate the
impression the last line of letter is printed directly on the
cartonnage, a sign that these are "manufacured"
250proofs. Again, as in 1st state, the view of Lanercost Priory has 1 rule. Copies: Harvard (Br 3740.7.3F*): With illustrations in both states. B.M. (189.e.16): Illustrations in 2d state. With suppressed "Introductory Sketch" collating b-e2, consisting of three chapters and breaking off in mid-sentence "of a frontier". Todd: Illustrations in 2d state, protected in this copy by guard tissue generally dated 1818. Supplementary note: Another, uncatalogued set at Harvard, though now bound with 9 parts in the 1st volume, is not properly of the 3d issue since it contains plates released more than a year after that publication. Like the B.M. copy this carries the suppressed "Sketch" (here on unwatermarked paper) and, in the full introduction, the reset footnote on page lvi. Like the Bodleian copy of the Medium Impression, described below, it also bears the earliest issue of sheet R, but lacks the full sheet S which displaced it. All plates are of the 2d state except the Interior of Carlisle Castle, which is of the third.
- 2. Royal impression. Size uncut (Berg copy) 34.3 x 26 cm. Typography: Vol. I title as in super-royal impression. Page lvi, fn. in earlier setting, last word of text unpointed: adherents. Plates: 3d state. Finished illustrations printed directly on heavy paper. View of Lanercost Priory now enclosed by 2 rules. Copies: B.M. (563.e.6): Sheets d and f of same impression as super-royal issue, with figure 3, p. xxxii, and no figure p. xlvi. N. Y. Public Library (Berg) :First part (B-E) reset and without press-figures. In this copy the illustrations are protected by guard tissue generally dated 1820.
- 3. Medium impression. Size cut 27.5 x 21.2 cm. Typography: Both imprints uncorrected ISLINGTON: Page lvi as in royal impression. Press-figures unique to this impression, introduction lx-1; appendix xxxi-1, xxxvii-6. Plates: As in royal impression. Copies: Cambridge. Bodley: With suppressed introductory sketch, as described in note for B.M. super-royal copy, and an earlier issue of R, here consisting of two leaves. The second leaf, a cancellandum, has on recto the same text later appearing in S1r, and on verso one 19 line paragraph later extended to eleven paragraphs in S.
B. SECOND EDITION ca. 1823
Variant collation, with text in fours. Both vols. dated 1814. Sheets in first indicate vol. but not part numbers. Illustrations directly printed.
Copytext A. Page xlv last word "Payment"; lxxx last figure reads correctly "p. 396"; 113 first word last line "horror".
Copy: N. Y. Public Library (Draper).
C. THIRD EDITION ca. 1823-1826
Variant collation, with text in twos. Both vols. dated 1814. Sheets without vol. or part reference. Illustrations on India paper. Plate impression 30.5 x 23.4 cm.
Cited readings follow copytext B except that lxxx last figure misprinted "p. 399".
Paper unwatermarked.
Copy: Harvard (Br 3740.7.5F*)
D. FOURTH EDITION ca. 1823-1826
Variant collation, with text in fours. Both vols. dated 1814. Sheets without vol. or part reference. Illustrations directly printed.
Cited readings follow copytext C except p. xlv "Pay-", 113 "riding".
Paper unwatermarked except for odd sheet d, dated 1809.
Copy: N. Y. Public Library (Williams).
E. FIFTH EDITION ca. 1832
Variant collation, with text in fours. Sheets without vol. or part reference. Plates re-engraved and printed on India paper
Follows copytext A, with p. 113 first word last line "north-riding".
Paper watermarked 1831.
Copy: Univ. of London: Lacks prelims, introduction, and all after 2E1.
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