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THE BALLANTYNE-LOCKHART CONTROVERSY 1838-1839.
A reprint of three tracts concerning the Ballantyne - Lockhard controversy. Lockhart was the son-in-law of Sir Walter Scott. He made the claim that the Ballantynes played a key role in the financial ruin of Scott. The Ballantynes denied the charges. Contains much of interest on publishing and authors during the period.
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> PUBLISHING HISTORY, NINETEENTH CENTURY
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> SCOTT, WALTER
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FOR WHISPERS & CHANTS.
by Zeitlin, Jake
First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. The book was printed at the Grabhorn Press (Heller & Magee no.96) and has a colored frontispiece drawn by Valenti Angelo as was the design on the front cover (Angelo Biblio. p.40). Zeitlin's first book. Also contains a short foreword by Carl Sandburg. Chosen as one of the 50 Best Books of the year by the AIGA. Presentation on free endpaper "To Henry Viets, with grateful remembrances of a day in Boston full of warmth & exciting encounters with books & men. Jake. 7/20/52." With Viet's bookplate. Page 4 has a number of lines added to the poem in ink in Zeitlin's hand.
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