Lockhart, J. G. [translator]. Ancient Spanish Ballads; Historical and Romantic; A New Revised Edition, with a Biographical Notice. Boston: Whittemore, Niles, and Hall, 1856. Revised Edition. [10332]
Brown blindstamped cloth, 7 1/2 x 5 inches, small chip top of spine, tight. Steel-engraved portrait of Lockhart with printed signature and tissue buard, small tidemark at top. 151 generally clean pp., some leaves have a thin tidemark in the long margin. Good. Hardcover.
John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854), b. Cambusnethan, Scotland; d. Abbotsford, England. He was educated at the University of Glasgow and at Baliol College, Oxford; was made a member of the bar in Scotland, but soon left his law career for that of a man of letters. He was a frequent contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and was for some time editor of the Quarterly Review. He is best remembered for his intimate biography of Sir Walter Scott, who was his father-in-law. He is a significant figure in the literature of the Romantic and early Victorian periods.
