BIB_ID
131751
Accession number
MA 450.1
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[ca. 1830].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1897.
Description
1 item (46 p.) ; 26-33 cm
Notes
Bound with a portion of the autograph manuscript of the first series of Tales of a Grandfather (MA 450.2); a portion of the autograph manuscript of the third series of Tales of a Grandfather (MA 450.3), and two unrelated letters (MA 450.4-5); see collection-level record for more information.
Written for publication in Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia.
Written for publication in Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia.
Provenance
Given by the author to Robert Cadell in 1831; his sale (London, Christie's, July 9, 1868) to Mr. F. Richardson; sale (London, Sotheby's, 1897); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from C. Daniell in 1897.
Summary
Being an autograph portion of the Vol. I of Scott's History of Scotland, containing the end of chapter 2; chapters 3-4; and part of chapter 5, written on the rectos and with corrections and additions on the versos of 22 leaves. Concluded by a corrected printed proof sheet (2 p.) from Vol. II, chapter 27.
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