BIB_ID
131237
Accession number
MA 1073
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1815-1816].
Credit line
Purchased, 1929.
Description
3 v. (108, 100, 102 p.), bound ; 28 cm
Notes
Perhaps bound in 1822, the date of the watermark on blank leaves at end.
Provenance
Given by Sir Walter Scott to Archibald Constable in 1823; his sale (London, Evans, 1831) to Captain Basil Hall; purchased from Gabriel Wells in 1929.
Summary
Being the autograph manuscript of The Antiquary, written on the rectos and with corrections and additions on the versos of 310 leaves. Each volume of the novel has been bound and foliated separately.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine boxes (30.4 cm)
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