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The Lay of The Last Minstrel, With all His Introductions, and The Editor's Notes. Illustrated by One Hundred Engravings on Wood From Drawings by Birket Foster and John Gilbert..
The Lay of The Last Minstrel, With all His Introductions, and The Editor's Notes. Illustrated by One Hundred Engravings on Wood From Drawings by Birket Foster and John Gilbert..
  • The Lay of The Last Minstrel, With all His Introductions, and The Editor's Notes. Illustrated by One Hundred Engravings on Wood From Drawings by Birket Foster and John Gilbert..
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The Lay of The Last Minstrel, With all His Introductions, and The Editor's Notes. Illustrated by One Hundred Engravings on Wood From Drawings by Birket Foster and John Gilbert.

Scott, Sir Walter, Bart. · Edingurgh

Author
Scott, Sir Walter, Bart.
Date
1854
Place
Edingurgh
Publisher
Adam and Charles Black
Language
English
Binding
8vo.(5.25" x 8") 354 pp. Full red cloth with all over gilt decoration of crests, banners, and two figures framing a gothic inset of the gilt title centered to both beveled boards. Spine, lightly sun-faded, similarly decorated with a gilt ribbon device with "Authors Edition Illustrated" within, gilt title towards head and gilt harp player towards foot (see pic). Edgewear, corners lightly rubbed, head and foot of spine ruffled with small closed tears. All edges gilt. Small bookplate of Robin de Beaumont and two ink gift insriptions neatly to front pastedown. Reverse of first free endpaper with 27 thin lines of booksellers notes in pencil. Illustrated with engraved title page, engraved frontispiece, and approx. 100 engravings on wood designed by Birket Foster and John Gilbert, and engraved by J.W. Whymper and Edmund Evans. Truly a beautiful book.
Format
"Robin de Beaumont, 1926-2023, former President of The Private Libraries Association and benefactor to the British Museum, enjoyed a reputation as one of the leading experts in Victorian decorative bindings. For the condition of his books he was accused of having a time machine, while another visitor described his Chelsea library as "The closest one could get to looking through the window of Hatchard's in the 1860s."
Category
Children’s & Illustrated
Record
S.I.8011

8vo.(5.25" x 8") 354 pp. 1854. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. Full red cloth with all-over gilt decoration of crests, banners, and two figures framing a gothic inset of the gilt title centered to both beveled boards. Spine, lightly sun-faded, similarly decorated with a gilt ribbon device with "Authors Edition Illustrated" within, gilt title towards head and gilt harp player towards foot (see pic). Edgewear, corners lightly rubbed, head and foot of spine ruffled with small closed tears. All edges gilt. Small bookplate of Robin de Beaumont and two ink gift insriptions neatly to front pastedown. Reverse of first free endpaper with 27 thin lines of bookseller's notes in pencil. Illustrated with engraved title page, engraved frontispiece, and approx. 100 engravings on wood designed by Birket Foster and John Gilbert, and engraved by J.W. Whymper and Edmund Evans. Truly a beautiful book.

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSAScot (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels Ivanhoe (1819), Rob Roy (1817), Waverley (1814), Old Mortality (1816), The Heart of Mid-Lothian (1818), and The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), along with the narrative poems Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810). He had a major impact on European and American literature.

Condition

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