BIB_ID
313810
Accession number
MA 451.1-5
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1812-1832].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 v. (5 items), bound ; 31 cm
Notes
When purchased by Pierpont Morgan, these manuscripts (at the very least, The Bridal of Triermain) were probably bound with the autograph manuscripts of Waverly (MA 541) and Ivanhoe (MA 440) in brown leather stamped in gilt with a coat of arms with a stag and the word "Vigilantia" (Cadell's crest). This volume was disbound in 1931; Ivanhoe was put into a green morocco gilt binding by Rivière; Waverly was bound in brown half leather over brown cloth covered boards; The Bridal of Triermain was returned to the original binding.
Provenance
Robert Cadell; his sale (London, Christie's, July 6, 1867) to Mr. Hope Scott; by descent to his daughter the Hon. Mrs. Mary Monica Maxwell-Scott; her sale (London, Sotheby's as part of the Birket Foster sale, June 11, 1894) to Mattie; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from A.L. Isaacs in 1901.
Summary
Collection includes three poems (The Bridal of Triermain, Carle Now the King's Come, and Bonny laddie, Highland laddie), one letter to the editor of the Scot's Magazine in defense of Scotch history and customs, and one autograph article, The Ex-King of France, on Charles X. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (32.7 cm)
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