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Notes
Though the Ballantyne colophon has been applied to work printed exclusively in London (see T.L.S., Sept. 7, 1933, p. 592), the use of press figures and certain other indications noted in the Table would appear to certify part of this work as his. In the Antiquities the top figures are 8 and 11; in Rokeby, printed at the same time, and known to be entirely his job, the top figures are 8, 10, and 12.
No. 86, June 10, 1812. Assuming in each case that the monthly Advertiser (appearing regularly on the 10th) announces for the Border Antiquities an issue of the 1st (the date cited in the plates), we may reconstruct from one source or the other the following schedule of publication. Dates in brackets have been taken from the plates alone. No. 1 June 1812, #2 Nov., #3 April 1813, #4 July, [#5 Sept., #6 Dec.], #7 May 1814, [#8 Aug.], #9 Dec., [#10 March 1815, #11 May, #12 July, #13 Sept., #14 Nov., #15 Jan. 1816], #16-17 Sept. 1817.
LXXVII (Dec. 1815), 935. The welcome event, it will be noticed, failed to appear in the very month in which it was announced.
The illustration is of the Monument at Bewcastle (after p. 126), promised in a note in the preliminary sheet for vol. 1, a sheet used both for the 9 part and later 6 part issue.
For July 1813 the information is from the Monthly Literary Advertiser and the Gentleman's Magazine; for other dates, from the Advertiser alone.
Ballantyne's work is figured (see description), bears his colophon at χ1r, and is generally of 13.4+ cm. type-measure.
Davison's work is unfigured, bears his colophon at i1v (both vols.) and q4v, and is generally of 13.2— cm. type-measure.
These four sheets, comprising the first number, reset without figures in Berg copy on the unwatermarked paper used toward the end of the work.
This preliminary used, apparently, both for the nine-part (B-2L) and later six-part (B-2B) issues of the 1st vol.
Date conjectured. The earlier "Sketch" does not appear in any copy of this impression which I have seen.
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