Wilson's Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland. 2 of 3 volumes (lacking #3)

Wilson's Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland. 2 of 3 volumes (lacking #3)

Author: Wilson, John Mackay (Ed.), various authors

4to.(8.25" x 11")c1883 Wilson, John Mackay. Glasgow, Melbourne, Dunedin McGready, Thomson & Nevin. 2 of 3 volumes. Quarter black leather with corners, double gilt rule to all leather edges, over dark brown fabric boards. Spine with five raised bands, gilt author/title to gilt framed second compartment, gilt vol# to gilt fancy rule framed fourth compartment, all other compartments with heavy gilt frames and centered devices. All edges marbled. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with tiny loss to tips, head of spines chipped with tiny loss, fabric fraying along board edges. Covers lightly soiled, scuffed, with minor scratches to rear board of vol.II. Small amount of foxing towards front and rear of text block, intermittent throughout. Vol.II, page 429/430 with ruffled fore-edge, closed tears affecting text.

From Wiki: John Mackay Wilson (15 August 1804 – 2 October 1835) was a Scottish writer who wrote the eponymous "Wilson's Tales of The Borders (and of Scotland)" He was born in Tweedmouth, on the border between Scotland and England. He gave many talks to Temperance societies. Whilst editor of the Berwick Advertiser, Wilson began publishing local stories. Their popularity led to him reprinting and extending them into a weekly broadsheet, priced at 1 1/2d (a penny halfpenny) Although he died within a year, with his obituary published in issue 49, the Tales ran to 312 editions, in all carrying 485 tales or serialisations. After his death the Tales continued under the editorship of others, in part to provide income for his widow and family. The most notable contributor and subsequent editor being Alexander Leighton. As well as editing the newspaper, Wilson also wrote poetry and plays. The Wilson's Tales Project now hosts a literary dinner on the anniversary of his death, at which his poem 'Beans and Bacon' is performed. The circumstances and penury of the central character of the poem are generally regarded as being semi-autobiographical. His plays include The Gowrie Conspiracy and Margaret of Anjou.

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