The Works of The Ettrick Shepherd with a Memoir of the Author by Thomas Thomson. Vol.1: Tales & Sketches. Vol.2: Poems and Ballads. [James Hogg, 1770-1835)

London, Edinburgh & Glasgow: Blackie and Son, 1866. Half-Leather to Marbled Boards. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued.

Half calf leather to marbled boards with matching endpage and text-block stain; Four wide spine bands with six gilt decorated bands; two red leather title bands; 4to, 10 inches tall; 712; 468 pages; 30 steel engravings with loose tissue-guards by D.O. Hill and K. Halsewelle with engraved title pages.

The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, with toning an occasional foxing spot mainly on the blank preliminaries. Moderate shelf handling wear with rubbed corners. The front hinges of Volume 1 are starting to loosen.. James Hogg was a Scottish poet, known as the "Ettrick Shepherd," who enjoyed a vogue during the ballad revival that accompanied the Romantic movement. he was additionally a novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English.

As a young man he worked as a shepherd and farmhand and was largely self-educated through reading. Hogg is often associated with the Blackwood's 'Noctes Ambrosianae' circle, and especially with John Wilson. His admirers range from Byron to Andre Gide, and his influence on later Scottish writers has been immense, from Robert Louis Stevenson to Muriel Spark and beyond.