BIB_ID
131708
Accession number
MA 434
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1816].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 v. (101 p.) ; 28 cm
Notes
Sir Walter Scott was contracted to write Tales of My Landlord (in 4 vols.) in April 1816; The Black Dwarf (vol. 1) was completed that summer and was in print by the end of August. The remaining three volumes (Old Morality) were completed later that year and all four volumes were issued together as Tales of My Landlord on December 2, 1816.
The manuscript has been collated with the first edition of the novel and is complete.
The manuscript has been collated with the first edition of the novel and is complete.
Provenance
John Ballantyne; his sale (Edinburgh, May 1848); Sir William Tite; his sale (London, 1874, no. 2693); purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Summary
Written on the rectos and with some corrections on the versos of 101 leaves.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (29.5 cm)
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