The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From The Original Manuscript at Abbotsford.

  • Scott, Sir Walter
  • Edinburgh: David Douglas 1890

£225

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Description

FIRST EDITION, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. viii, [ii], 416; [vi], 517, [1] + tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume and double-page coloured map to vol. 1. Title-pages engraved. Contemporary half crushed red morocco by Riviere, red cloth boards, spines divided by raised bands, 2nd and 3rd compartments lettered direct in gilt, other compartments tooled centrally in gilt, edges gilt. A fine set.

Notes

An attractively-bound copy of the first full appearance of a journal Scott kept between 1825 and 1832; some sections of it were quoted in Lockhart's Life of Walter Scott. This first edition exists in two states, with dates of 1890 and 1891 on its title-page, prior to its 1891 second edition.

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