The Acts and Deeds of the Gallant Sir William Wallace, Knight of Ellerslie. With the Relationes of Arnold Blair, Sir William's Chaplain

by commonly called Blind Harry Henry the Minstrel

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First edition

Edinburgh: Robert Freebairn, 1714, 1758 . First edition thus. It is generally agreed that while the sheets for this edition were printed in 1714, the books were not bound and sold until 1758. This copy lacking the title page, but with an early facsimile bound in, showing the date as 1714, not 1758. Bound in quarter diced calf over dark blue paper boards. Binding holding fine, but

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