Accession number
PML 145646.1
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Published
London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme ... and A. Constable and Co. Edinburgh; by James Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh, 1810.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Engraved frontispiece portrait of Scott with his dog Camp, by Heath after a painting by Saxon.
Ruff identifies this as the first impression, second issue, with revisions and an added appendix of 28 p. (i.e. p. [clxviii]-cxcvi); Todd and Bowden, however, identify this as the third (further augmented) issue, preceded by a second issue of the first impression published in 1808, having 2K extended to a full gathering and gatherings 2L-2U (i.e. the supplement entitled "Ballads from the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border) and t-y (notes for the supplement) added.
Ruff identifies this as the first impression, second issue, with revisions and an added appendix of 28 p. (i.e. p. [clxviii]-cxcvi); Todd and Bowden, however, identify this as the third (further augmented) issue, preceded by a second issue of the first impression published in 1808, having 2K extended to a full gathering and gatherings 2L-2U (i.e. the supplement entitled "Ballads from the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border) and t-y (notes for the supplement) added.
Description
343, cxcvi p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 29 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscription in ink on verso of front flyleaf, "Given to Lord Northampton by Lord Compton & Lady F.E. Compton".
Provenance
Bookplate of former owner with initials "NOR" (?); Marquis of Northampton; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Red morocco tooled in gilt; bound as a set with a collection of additional works of Scott similarly extra-illustrated by members of the Compton family (see PML 145644-48).
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