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Memoirs Of The Life Of Sir Walter Scott, Bart
by Lockhart, J.G
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- very good
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1838. Early Edition. Full leather. Very good. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. by John Gibson Lockhart, two volumes published in Philadelphia in 1838.. Octavo, [two volumes], xvi, 17-600pp; viii, 11-765pp. Full brown leather, title in gilt over red leather spine labels, raised bands, gilt ruling. Sprinkled edges. Marbled endpapers, decorative gilt board edges. Frontispiece portrait in Volume I with tissue cover, some offsetting to title page. Toning to spines, rubbing to spines, spine ends and corners. Splash marks on the front cover of Volume I, corners of Volume II bumped. Solid bindings, some mild foxing to text pages, no notations or other markings to text. Bookseller's label on front pastedown of Volume I, typed label with the word "TUCKER" pasted to endpapers of both volumes. (American Imprints 51311) A nice example of this biography of Scottish novelist Sir Walter Scott, by his son-in-law.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12924
- Title
- Memoirs Of The Life Of Sir Walter Scott, Bart
- Author
- Lockhart, J.G
- Illustrator
- Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. by John Gibson Lockhart, two volumes published in Philadelphia in 1838.
- Format/Binding
- Full leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early Edition
- Publisher
- Carey, Lea, & Blanchard
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1838
- Keywords
- JG Lockhart, J G Lockhart, John Gibson Lockhart, Sir Walter Scott, Life of Sir Walter Scott, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Valerius Lockhart, Some Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair, Reginald Dalton Lockhart, Matthew Wald Lockhart, Ivan
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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