Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. In Three Volumes.

  • Scott, Sir Walter
  • Edinburgh: Printed for Cadell and Co. 1828
  • Todd & Bowden 216Aa.

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Description

FIRST EDITION, 3 vols., 8vo, pp. [iv], 336; [iv], 336; [iv], 3-348. Bound without fly-title and final ads. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spines divided by raised bands between double gilt rules, brown morocco labels, other compartments tooled in gilt, blue endpapers. Somewhat foxed, a spot of adhesion affecting two or three words in one opening. Slightly sunned to spines and head of rear board of first volume, a touch rubbed.

Notes

Named on the spines as 'The Fair Maid of Perth', that tale forming almost the entirety of what had originally been intended to be a collection of short stories.

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