Walter Scott, Extra-Illustrated
Updated September 24, 2026
| Lot number | 78 |
| Estimate | 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD |
| Auction | Fall Rare Books, Manuscripts, Historical Prints, & Ephemera |
| Date | October 8, 2026 at 10:30 AM EDT |
| Auction house | Quinn's Auction Galleries |
| Location | Falls Church, Virginia |
SCOTT, WALTER. [Life and Works]. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1847. 17 volumes. Royal 8vo (163 x 250 mm). Extra-illustrated with hundreds of engraved portraits, plates, and items of correspondence. Full green morocco by Riviere & Son, 5 raised bands, spines elaborately gilt in panels, gilt turn-ins, t.e.g., maroon endpapers. Provenance: Lowell M. Palmer (bookplate); Jimmy Smith (ownership signature date 1841); Leticia James (gift inscription). FINE BINDING, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, including 6 ALS of Walter Scott, in addition to ALsS of John Ballantyne, Archibald Constable, John Murray, Maria Edgeworth, Robert Southey (to Thomas Frognall Dibdin, thanking him for the copy of Bibliomania), and others. Condition Spines uniformly faded to brown, a few stray scuffs and marks to boards
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