The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott Bart.: Complete in One Volume with All His Introductions and Notes Also Various Reading and the Editor’s Notes. (with a double foredge painting)

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Very good, light wear to corners, slipcase lightly soiled. Contemporary full black morocco, raised bands, gilt spine decorations and title, gilt King’s College device on cover, blind ruled borders, blind filigree bracket corners, gilt dentelle turn-ins, all edges gilt. In a later green cloth slipcase. 8, 25×17 cm. Double foredge painting of a sailing ship. King’s College prize presentation bookplate to pastedown. Adam & Charles Black. Edinburgh. 1859. 823 pp. 24 engraved plates after J.M.W. Turner.