The lord of the isles / by Sir Walter Scott, bart, with all his introductions, and the editor's notes ; illustrated by numerous engravings on wood from drawings by Birket Foster and John Gilbert.

Accession number

PML 142756

Creator

Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.

Published

Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, North Bridge ..., 1857.

Credit line

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes

Added engraved and illustrated t.p..
Steel engraved frontispiece plate and title vignette after Turner.
"Printed by R. and R. Clark Edinburgh."--Colophon.
Illustrated throughout with wood engravings by J.W. Whymper and Edmund Evans after Foster and Gilbert.

Description

367p., [1] leaf of plates ill. ; 21cm.

Provenance

Label of F.G. Reynolds; from the library of Forrest Reid; J.N. Hart; and Gordon N. Ray.

Binding

Publisher's blue cloth blocked in gold, red, and blind, attributed by King to John Leighton, bound by Leighton Son and Hodge, with their ticket (Ball 53a).

Classification

Book

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Department

Printed Books