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Auction archive: Lot number 98

SCOTT, Sir Walter. [ Works comprising:] Poetical Works , Edinburgh: for Arch. Constable, Longman, Hurst [etc.], John Murray and Hurst, Robinson, 1822, 8 volumes; Historical Romances , Edinburgh: for Archibald Constable, and Hurst, Robinson, 1822, 8 v...

Auction 20.11.1998
20 Nov 1998
Estimate
£1,200 - £1,800
ca. US$1,994 - US$2,991
Price realised:
£3,450
ca. US$5,733
Auction archive: Lot number 98

SCOTT, Sir Walter. [ Works comprising:] Poetical Works , Edinburgh: for Arch. Constable, Longman, Hurst [etc.], John Murray and Hurst, Robinson, 1822, 8 volumes; Historical Romances , Edinburgh: for Archibald Constable, and Hurst, Robinson, 1822, 8 v...

Auction 20.11.1998
20 Nov 1998
Estimate
£1,200 - £1,800
ca. US$1,994 - US$2,991
Price realised:
£3,450
ca. US$5,733
Beschreibung:

SCOTT, Sir Walter. [ Works comprising:] Poetical Works , Edinburgh: for Arch. Constable, Longman, Hurst [etc.], John Murray and Hurst, Robinson, 1822, 8 volumes; Historical Romances , Edinburgh: for Archibald Constable, and Hurst, Robinson, 1822, 8 volumes; Novels and Romances , Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, and Hurst, Robinson, 1824, 9 volumes; Novels and Tales , Edinburgh: for Archibald Constable, and Hurst, Robinson, 1825, 16 volumes; Tales and Romances , Edinburgh: for Cadell, and Longman, Rees, [etc.], 1827, 9 volumes. 50 volumes in total, 12°, the Poetical Works with frontispiece to each volume and plates after R. Smirke, with half titles, the other series with engraved title vignettes after A. Nasmyth, J. Ewbank and others, engraved portrait of Scott after Raeburn in volume I of Novels and Tales (browning to plates and vignettes, offsetting, spotting to preliminaries), contemporary straight-grained blue morocco sides and blue calf backs, narrow gilt roll-tool border on sides, flat spines with gilt-lettered compartments and thistle motif at head and foot (light rubbing to extremities, some scuff marks, a few spines with superficial cracks, joints remaining sound), marbled endpapers, g.e. (50)

Auction archive: Lot number 98
Auction:
Datum:
20 Nov 1998
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

SCOTT, Sir Walter. [ Works comprising:] Poetical Works , Edinburgh: for Arch. Constable, Longman, Hurst [etc.], John Murray and Hurst, Robinson, 1822, 8 volumes; Historical Romances , Edinburgh: for Archibald Constable, and Hurst, Robinson, 1822, 8 volumes; Novels and Romances , Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, and Hurst, Robinson, 1824, 9 volumes; Novels and Tales , Edinburgh: for Archibald Constable, and Hurst, Robinson, 1825, 16 volumes; Tales and Romances , Edinburgh: for Cadell, and Longman, Rees, [etc.], 1827, 9 volumes. 50 volumes in total, 12°, the Poetical Works with frontispiece to each volume and plates after R. Smirke, with half titles, the other series with engraved title vignettes after A. Nasmyth, J. Ewbank and others, engraved portrait of Scott after Raeburn in volume I of Novels and Tales (browning to plates and vignettes, offsetting, spotting to preliminaries), contemporary straight-grained blue morocco sides and blue calf backs, narrow gilt roll-tool border on sides, flat spines with gilt-lettered compartments and thistle motif at head and foot (light rubbing to extremities, some scuff marks, a few spines with superficial cracks, joints remaining sound), marbled endpapers, g.e. (50)

Auction archive: Lot number 98
Auction:
Datum:
20 Nov 1998
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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