BIB_ID
131808
Accession number
MA 446
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1822].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
2 v. (130, 132 p.) ; 28.2 cm
Notes
Bound in two volumes: the first volume (MA 446) contains the text of the first two volumes of the first printed edition; the second volume (MA 447) contains the text of volumes 3-4 of the first printed edition.
Each of the four books has been foliated individually: Book I contains 63 p.; Book II contains 67 p.; Book III contains 65 p.; Book IV contains 67 p.
Each of the four books has been foliated individually: Book I contains 63 p.; Book II contains 67 p.; Book III contains 65 p.; Book IV contains 67 p.
Provenance
Given by Sir Walter Scott to Archibald Constable in 1823; his sale (London, Evans, 1831) to Cochran for Robert Cadell (?); Sir William Tite; his sale (London, Sotheby's, 1874, no. 2692); purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Summary
Written on the rectos and with corrections and additions on some versos of 262 p. The manuscript has been collated against the first edition of the book and is complete with the exception of a single page and a paragraph.
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