BIB_ID
128758
Accession number
MA 1438
Creator
Ballantyne, James, 1772-1833.
Display Date
1801 September 18.
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1952.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.9 x 18.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks to "Messrs Caddell & Davies / Booksellers, / Strand. / London."
Provenance
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1952.
Summary
Informing them that Scott's "Minstrelsy of the Border" "...will be finished about the beginning of December, and sent off immediately afterwards. The work consists of 2 volumes, and each volume will contain about 400 pages. Of the paper, and style of printing, you have already been furnished with a specimen. I allude to these particulars, that you may have sufficient data upon which to calculate the price to the Public;" adding, in a postscript, "In a letter rec'd from Mr. Scott some short time since, he expresses his anxiety that the work should be advertised."
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