Mauchline tartan ware - Sir Walter Scott
Scott's Poetical Works
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
£1,512
Description
Select Edition. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1871. 6 volumes, 16mo (13.3 x 8cm), contemporary Mauchline-ware bindings of wooden covers transfer-printed with tartan patterns (McPherson; McDuff; McLean; McBeth; Prince Charlie; Stuart), gilt blue morocco spines, all edges gilt, engraved additional vignette title-page to each volume, in Mauchline-ware tartan box (10.5 x 20 x 16.5cm), Stuart pattern with vignette of the Scott Monument statue of Sir Walter Scott, blue velvet lining, spotting to half-titles, small hole in spine of one volume (Marmion), mottling to box