Accession number
PML 44312
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Published
Edinburgh : Printed for John Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, London, by James Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh, 1810.
Notes
Errata, p. cxxix.
First ed.
"Notes to canto first[-sixth]": p. [i]-cxxix at end.
Tipped in before the half-title are two leaves advertising "Marmion," "The lay of the last minstrel," and Westall's "Illustrations of the Lady of the Lake."
Library copy uncut.
On p. 86, linell, the last word is "e'er."
... James Heath in 1810 for this work, after the painting by James Saxon in 1805. "It was the first portrait of Sir Walter ever published."
First ed.
"Notes to canto first[-sixth]": p. [i]-cxxix at end.
Tipped in before the half-title are two leaves advertising "Marmion," "The lay of the last minstrel," and Westall's "Illustrations of the Lady of the Lake."
Library copy uncut.
On p. 86, linell, the last word is "e'er."
... James Heath in 1810 for this work, after the painting by James Saxon in 1805. "It was the first portrait of Sir Walter ever published."
Description
5 p.., 290, cxxix p., 2 . 28 cm.
Provenance
Provenance: Presentation copy to Scott's life-long friend, Anne Arden, baroness Alvanley, with the author's accompanying letter to her signed and dated Edinburgh, 7th May 1810. With the exlibris of Frank Fletcher. Acquired with the Van Antwerp collection, Feb. 1952.
Binding
Original light brown boards; in tan cloth case.
Classification
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