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3 000 SEK

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7 000 SEK

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FINE SET OF WALTER SCOTT´S WORKS (98). Lot consisting of: The Wawerley Novels I-XLVIII. Edinburgh and London, 1829-33. + The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, bart. I-XXVIII. Edinburgh and London, 1834-36. + The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, bart. I-XII. Edinburgh and London, (1833-34). + [Scott] LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, bart. Second edition. I-X. Edinburgh and London, 1839.

8vo. 166 x 104 mm. Engraved frontispieces, engraved titles. Plates, sheet music, maps and facsimiles. Engraved frontispiece and title lacking in Prose, volumes VIII and XVII. Uniformly bound in grained green half morocco with gilt spines with raised bands, marbled boards with gilt filets and gilt top edges. Some foxing, especially on engraved frontispieces and titles, occasional minor stains, a few instances of worse soiling. Bookplate of T. H. Riches on front board insides. 98 volumes in all.

Not collated in detail.

A complete set of the first edition of the collected works, with Lockhart´s biography in second edition. Printed for Cadell in Edinburgh and Whitaker & Co., London. First 13 Wawerley volumes Edinburgh, Cadell/London, Simpkin & Marshall.

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Auktionsnummer:

669126

Datum:

2019-09-01