Lot 110
[Scott, Sir Walter]
Waverley; or, 'tis Sixty Years Since
£1,638
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
In Three Volumes. Edinburgh: printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co., 1814. First edition, 3 volumes, 12mo (18.7 x 11cm), finely bound in olive-green crushed morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, half-title and fly-title to each volume, volumes 1 and 2 retaining final leaf (blank but for printer's imprint recto; no such leaf called for in volume 3), Castlecraig library bookplates, spines slightly sunned, faded ownership inscriptions to head of title-pages, [Worthington, A Bibliography of the Waverley Novels, pp. 1-18]
Provenance
The Library of a Scottish Gentleman
Footnote
A total of 1,000 copies were printed. This set contains all the requisite printing errors cited by Worthington (though not all found in ‘some copies’ only), and 55 of 57 of his key identifying pressmarks and similar points, those lacking being the pressmark ‘7’ at the foot of volume 2 pp. 26 and 324. Worthington may be mistaken in calling for the horizontal bar on the final leaf of volume 1 to be 26 mm; it is 22 mm in the present copy, though the matter is listed only as one of his numerous ‘additional’ points.
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