Accession number
PML 195364
Creator
Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, tr.
Published
Edinburgh : William Blackwood ; London : T. Cadell, 1823.
Credit line
Purchase: Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2009.
Notes
Engraved and illustrated t.p. by W.H. Lizars after a design by W. Allan.
Library's copy annotated in pencil on p. 200 with an improvised revision of two lines of verse from the third stanza of the ballad "Dragut", composed by Sir Walter Scott and evidently dictated by him directly to Harriet Thiébault who received the volume as gift from Scott during a visit to Abbotsford in 1828. Scott's rewrites were subsequently incorporated in later editions of Lockhart's book, with the exception of the word "Turc" which was later changed to "Moor" and the formatting of the printed verses as two lines rather than four lines as they appear in Mrs. Thiébault's dictated inscription.
Library's copy annotated in pencil on p. 200 with an improvised revision of two lines of verse from the third stanza of the ballad "Dragut", composed by Sir Walter Scott and evidently dictated by him directly to Harriet Thiébault who received the volume as gift from Scott during a visit to Abbotsford in 1828. Scott's rewrites were subsequently incorporated in later editions of Lockhart's book, with the exception of the word "Turc" which was later changed to "Moor" and the formatting of the printed verses as two lines rather than four lines as they appear in Mrs. Thiébault's dictated inscription.
Description
xxvii, 209 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pencil on p. 200 with lines by Sir Walter Scott rewriting the last 2 lines of the third verse of the ballad Dragut and reading: Down Turc & fetter'd Christian went / Beneath the billows roar / But Hell had work for Dragut yet / And he swam safe to shore.
Provenance
Gift of Sir Walter Scott to Baron Paul Thiébault and his wife Harriet Thiébault (née Thayer); purchased through Christopher Edwards Antiquarian Books & Manuscripts (#14691), Dec. 11, 2009.
Binding
1/4 red roan, paste paper boards.
Classification
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