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Large paper edition of Scott's works very finely bound
Large paper edition of Scott's works very finely bound
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Heading: (Fine Bindings)
Author: Scott, Sir Walter
Title: The Works... Including the Waverly Novels and the Poems
Place Published: Boston
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published: 1912-13
Description:


51 volumes, including "The Country of Sir Walter Scott" by Charles S. Olcott. Illustrations from photographs etc. Each of the first fifty volumes with triple frontispieces, one a full-page gelatin silver print photograph, one a hand-colored gravure, the last from drawings specially prepared for this edition by "twenty of the most distinguished illustrators of England." (8vo) 22x15 cm (8¾x6") original three-quarter dark brown morocco and cloth, spines in six compartments divided by raised bands, gilt portcullis device in four of the compartments, titles in the other two, top edges gilt, red ribbon place holder bound in each volume. Finely bound at the Riverside Press. No. 111 of 375 copies of the Large-Paper Edition.



A superb set of the writings of the great Scottish author, among the finest and most desirable of the many editions of Scott's collected works. Illustrators include Charles E. Brock, Sidney Seymour Lucas, Noel Pocock, W.G. Simmonds, Hugh Thomson, Lionel Edwards, W. Heath Robinson, Eleanor F. Brickdale, and many others.

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Large paper edition of Scott's works very finely bound

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