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Lot 99
Sale 5180 - Books and Manuscripts
Jul 25, 2023
7:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$630
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[Fore-Edge Painting] Scott, Walter The Lay of the Last Minstrel, a Poem
Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne & Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, et al., 1811. The Twelfth Edition. 8vo. 349 pp. With a fine fore-edge painting of Edinburgh Castle and the Grassmarket. Full contemporary straight-grain crimson morocco, stamped in gilt, corners and spine ends rubbed; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; book-plate on front paste-down; scattered light spotting to text.