John Barbour; Rev. Prof. Skeat — Selections from Barbour&Apos;S Bruce

Bungay, Richard Cay & Sons Limited, 1900. Leather. A smart copy of this selection of passages from Barbour's long narrative poem The Bruce. A selection of passages from the long narrative poem composed of almost 14,000 octosyllabic lines. Written in Early Scots, the piece gives a historic account of the actions of Robert the Bruce and Sir James Douglas in the Scottish War of Independence. Written by John Barbour, a Scottish poet and the first major named literary figure to write in Scots. Collected and edited by Reverend Professor Walter William Skeat, the pre-eminent British philologist of his time who was instrumental in developing the English language as a higher education subject in the United Kingdom. In the original half blue calf with blue cloth boards. Externally, smart with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with pencil annotations to some pages. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .