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Lot 117
Sale 5890 - Books and Manuscripts
Jun 25, 2024
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Live / Philadelphia
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[Fore-edge Painting] Scott, Walter: The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott
Scott, Walter
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott
Edinburgh: Robert Cadell & Whitaker & Co., 1834. Vol. XII only. With a fore-edge painting of the Bank of England. Full black morocco, stamped in gilt, rubbing to extremities and spine ends; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; armorial book-plate of Thomas Herbert Orpen on front paste-down; label identifying fore-edge illustration taped to front free endpaper; ownership inscriptions in green and blue ink on front blank; book-plate of Robert Sneath Cain on verso of frontispiece; foxing to frontispiece and title-page and scattered in text.