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The lay of the last minstrel / by Sir Walter Scott, bart., with all his introductions and the editor's notes ; illustrated by one hundred engravings on wood from drawings by Birket Foster and John Gilbert.

Accession number
PML 142734
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Published
Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, North Bridge, booksellers and publishers to the Queen, 1854.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Added steel engraved t.p. and frontispiece by W.J. Cooke after J.M.W. Turner..
Wood engravings executed by J.W. Whymper and E. Evans after Foster and Gilbert.
"Edinburgh: Printed by R. and R. Clark."--Colophon.
Description
354 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (wood engravings) ; 21 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Forrest Reid; J.N. Hart; and Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's mauve cloth blocked in gold and blind, bound by Burn with his ticket (Ball 20a); design attributed by King to John Leighton.
Classification
Department