SIGNED. – Walter SCOTT. Tales of My Landlord. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell

SIGNED. – Walter SCOTT. Tales of My Landlord. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1832. Vol. 47 of ‘The Waverley Novels’, 8vo (161 x 98mm.) Engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title, a 3-line manuscript clipping in Walter Scott’s hand with signature loosely folded in a mounted envelope to front endpaper. (Plates damp-stained.) Contemporary green half morocco (upper cover nearly detached, rubbing). Note: the clipping reads: ‘Selkirk 14 July 1828. The Sheriff-Depute Grants[?] to officers of court to summon witnesses for the [?] in exculpation in circumstancia [Latin?], Walter Scott’. Scott served as the Sherrif-Depute for Selkirkshire from 1799 until his death in 1832. The envelope also contains a piece of folded paper within which are some leaves. In hand-writing (circa 1830’s) on the side of the paper it says: ‘From the Grave of the late Sir Walter Scott, Dryburgh Abbey’. Provenance: ‘Miss Gladstone, Juvenal Street’ (ink inscribed from inside the envelope on front endpaper).

Estimate:£80

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