Clan-Albin: A National Tale Vol. IV by Christine I. Johnstone
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Clan-Albin: A National Tale Vol. IV by Christine I. Johnstone
$150.00 USD
Clan-Albin: A National Tale Vol. IV by Christine I. Johnstone
Authors: Christine I. Johnstone
Location: Edinburgh
Publisher: Macredie, Skelly, and Muckersy [and 3 others]
Date: 1815
Features: Title page dated 1815. In Four Volumes. Second Edition. Vol. IV. Brown leather with gilt lettering and ruling; marbled endpapers and text block edges. 326 pp. Christian Isobel Johnstone’s Clan-Albin: A National Tale was published in 1815, less than a year after Walter Scott’s Waverley; or ‘tis Sixty Years Since enthralled readers and initiated a craze for Scottish novels. Both as a novelist and as editor of Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine from 1834 to 1846, Johnstone was a powerful figure in Romantic Edinburgh’s literary scene. But her works and her reputation have long been overshadowed by Scott’s. In Clan-Albin, Johnstone engages with themes on British imperial expansion, metropolitan England’s economic and political relationships with the Celtic peripheries, and the role of women in public life. This rare novel, alongside extensive editorial commentary, will be of much interest to students of British Literature.Scottish fiction. Scottish fiction.
Book Condition: Very Good+: A firm copy with very minor wear to spine edges and mild wear to corners. Mild rubbing to spine joints. Library label and owner's label to front pastedown. No jacket present.
Notes: WorldCat: First published 1815. Second Edition also 1815. Scarce copy.
HCX23444-1
Authors: Christine I. Johnstone
Location: Edinburgh
Publisher: Macredie, Skelly, and Muckersy [and 3 others]
Date: 1815
Features: Title page dated 1815. In Four Volumes. Second Edition. Vol. IV. Brown leather with gilt lettering and ruling; marbled endpapers and text block edges. 326 pp. Christian Isobel Johnstone’s Clan-Albin: A National Tale was published in 1815, less than a year after Walter Scott’s Waverley; or ‘tis Sixty Years Since enthralled readers and initiated a craze for Scottish novels. Both as a novelist and as editor of Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine from 1834 to 1846, Johnstone was a powerful figure in Romantic Edinburgh’s literary scene. But her works and her reputation have long been overshadowed by Scott’s. In Clan-Albin, Johnstone engages with themes on British imperial expansion, metropolitan England’s economic and political relationships with the Celtic peripheries, and the role of women in public life. This rare novel, alongside extensive editorial commentary, will be of much interest to students of British Literature.Scottish fiction. Scottish fiction.
Book Condition: Very Good+: A firm copy with very minor wear to spine edges and mild wear to corners. Mild rubbing to spine joints. Library label and owner's label to front pastedown. No jacket present.
Notes: WorldCat: First published 1815. Second Edition also 1815. Scarce copy.
HCX23444-1