Accession number
PML 145645
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Published
Edinburgh : Printed for John Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, London, by James Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh, 1810.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
First edition, first impression. Cf. Ruff and Todd and Bowden.
Engraved frontispiece portrait of Scott with his dog Camp, by Heath after a painting by Saxon.
Engraved frontispiece portrait of Scott with his dog Camp, by Heath after a painting by Saxon.
Description
[10], 290, cxxix 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 & illustrated by them 1816".
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).
Classification
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