BIB_ID
130461
Accession number
MA 12
Creator
Ballantyne, John, 1774-1821.
Display Date
1819-1821.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (117 p., bound) ; 27.2 cm
Notes
With signatures of himself, Sir Walter Scott, James Ballantyne, Archibald Constable, and others.
Provenance
Sold by Archibald Constable, Edinburgh, in 1881. Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Bernard Quaritch, 1904.
Summary
Containing daily entries reporting on his health, activities, and finances; copies of agreements with the publisher Archibald Constable; financial accounts for various book titles including Ivanhoe, Kenilworth, The abbot, The monastery, and others; and lists of family expenses.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (30.2 cm)
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