Accession number
PML 145648
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Published
Edinburgh : Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. ... and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; by James Ballantyne and Co. Edinburgh, 1815.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
First edition. Cf. Ruff and Todd and Bowden.
Library's copy is a later state, with p. 56, line 8, reading "hunters, spears" and p. 175 misnumbered "157". Cf. Todd and Bowden.
Library's copy is a later state, with p. 56, line 8, reading "hunters, spears" and p. 175 misnumbered "157". Cf. Todd and Bowden.
Description
275, clxv p. ; 29 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscription in ink on verso of front flyleaf, "Given to Lady Northampton by Lord Compton & Lady F.E. Compton 1816 Most of the drawings done by them."
Provenance
Bookplate of former owner with crest and initials "NOR" (?); bookplate of the 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).
Classification
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