Tales of a Grandfather (History of Scotland). With Notes. [Frontispieces and title engravings by Miller after Turner.] SCOTT'S' SCOTLAND' WITH TURNER'S ILLUSTRATIONS IN PERIOD BINDING
by SCOTT Sir Walter
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Adam & Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1857-8. 3 vols., 8vo., with 3 engraved frontispieces (original tissue guards present), engraved and printed titles, and 48 engraved plates and portraits, neat contemporary signature on title of first volume, later uniform signature on front free endpapers; attractively bound in contemporary navy half calf, blue cloth sides, backs with raised bands, second compartments with red leather labels lettered and ruled in gilt, third compartments lettered and numbered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, marbled edges, ivory endpapers, backstrips very lightly chafed at heads else a very good, bright, cleasn fresh copy. The front endpapers of the first volume carry extensive and relevant annotation in a neat scholarly hand. The frontispieces are (respectively) 'Stirling', 'Dunstaffnage' and 'Inverness'; the engraved titles 'Craigmillar Castle', 'Linlithgow' and 'Fort Augustus. Loch Ness', all by Miller after Turner. Essentially a popular history of Scotland, 'Tales of a Grandfather' was written by Scott for his grandson John Hugh Lockhart. First published between 1828 and 1830, the three Scottish volumes were later joined by a fourth volume (1831) covering France from Charlemagne to Louis XIV. The Scottish volumes are however, complete in themselves. A REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CRISP, CLEAN SET IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PERIOD BINDING. SCARCE THUS.
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- Tales of a Grandfather (History of Scotland). With Notes. [Frontispieces and title engravings by Miller after Turner.] SCOTT'S' SCOTLAND' WITH TURNER'S ILLUSTRATIONS IN PERIOD BINDING
- Author
- SCOTT Sir Walter
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- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Adam & Charles Black, Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1857-8
- Keywords
- literature, scott, walter scott, waverley novels, scotland,
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