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Walter Scott | First Editions
1771 - 1832
See below our stock of Walter Scott First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
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Ivanhoe.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1910. [Historical Fiction] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a later printing thus. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] lvi; 673 [3]. With 12 etched plates by Lalauze, including a frontispiece. Contemporary red full calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt roll-tooling to..... More
Waverley, or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since.
Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co., 1814. [English Literature] Second Edition, in ORIGINAL BOARDS. Three volumes. Octavo, with half-titles, edges untrimmed. A rare survival in the original grey-paper covered boards, with blue paper spine and printed title labels (lacking from vol. II). Some general wear to the fragile binding, some paper..... More
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., no date [circa 1890s]. [Literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xx; 620; [2]. Tree calf binding, gilt tooling to boards and spine, raised bands to spine, gilt dentelles. Illustrated frontispiece, plates and in-text illustrations throughout, red margins around text, marbled endpapers and textblock edges..... More
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet. The Globe Edition, with a Biographical and Critical Memoir by Francis Turner Palgrave.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.xliv; 559 [3]. Small print, mainly in two columns. Contemporary brown full morocco for Stonyhurst College, with raised bands, gilt titles and further gilt decoration to spine, as well as gilt school stamp to..... More
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Complete in One Volume. With all his Introductions, Notes, Various Readings, and Notes by J.G. Lockhart, Esq.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1872. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND ILLUSTRATED. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.[8] iv; 823 [3]. With 26 engraved plates after Turner, including a frontispiece and vignette title page, and a folding facsimile of the author's handwriting. Printed over two columns in small print. Contemporary red..... More
Anne of Geierstein, or, The Maiden of the Mist.
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1887. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 490; [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and title page by the Dalziel brothers. In a fine prize binding for Harrow School. Slightly later full green calf with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a...... More
The Antiquary.
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1886. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 438; [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and title page by the Dalziel brothers. In a fine prize binding for Harrow School. Slightly later full green calf with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a...... More
The Bridal of Triermain, or, The Vale of St John. In Three Cantos.
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814. [Poetry] FOURTH EDITION. Duodecimo (19 x 11cm), pp.xx; 237 [1]. Publisher's grey pasteboards, with printed paper title label to spine. All edges untrimmed. Internally clean, with some spotting and thumbing to endpapers. Binding shows moderate general wear, with bumping to..... More
Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series.
Edinburgh: Printed for Cadell & Co., 1828. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION IN PUBLISHER'S BOARDS. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[4] 336; pp.[4] 336; pp.[4] 348 [6]. Publisher's grey pasteboards, with plain printed paper title labels to spines. All edges untrimmed. Internally clean, with a late nineteenth-century black..... More
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