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1849 The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott
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Description
Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce
With a frontispiece. Scarce edition. Six volumes bound into one, being: Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, Lady of the Lake, Don Roderick, Rokeby, and Ballads, Lyrics, and Songs. Scott was by far the most popular poet of the time until Lord Byron published the first two cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage in 1812 A collection of the poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, a Scottish novelist, poet and historian whose works remain classics of European and Scottish literature. With a life of the author.
Condition
In the original full cloth binding. Externally, sound with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Loss to the head of the spine with splits to the cloth. Fading to the spine with a 1" split to the rear joint. The odd small mark to the boards. Front hinge tender, rear hinge starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. light age toning to the endpapers.
Good
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