The Ayrshire Legatees: Or, the Pringle Family... to which is added, The Gathering of the West GALT John 1779-1839 Publisher: William Blackwood and T Cadell Publish Year: 1823 Publish Place: Edinburgh and London Illustrator: Unknown Category: Miscellaneous, Foreign Travel, Antiquarian Book, History, Reference Book No: 004663 Status: For Sale Book Condition: Good Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Jacket Condition: Unknown Binding: Hardcover Book Type: Unknown Edition: Second Edition Inscription: Unknown £20 Add to Basket Ask a question Refer to a friend Additional information 2nd ed, G, 1823. In quarter green cloth over contemporary green boards, corners & edges a little bumped & worn. Spine, printed title top paper label. Internally, [4], [1], 2-395 pp, [1] adverts, lacking fep & ffep, upper joint cracked but ties holding, ink initials to fpd, (pages 265-395 Gatherings of the West), printed by George Ramsey, first published in 1820/21 in Blackwoods Magazine, then the first edition published in Edinburgh in 1821, this edition in 1823 and then again in 1895. (FG Black 481). (183*108 mm). Galt, novelist, who in 1820 it started to publish in monthly parts The Ayrshire Legatees, his epistolary novel about the visit of the family of an Ayrshire minister to London to collect a legacy. For the first time Galt was drawing on his knowledge of life in the west of Scotland, his comic invention, and his exuberant Scots dialogue. See ODNB for a full Bio.
