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Rokeby: A Poem [Bound together with:] The Vision of Don Roderick: A Poem
by Scott, Walter [Sir] (1771-1832). Illustrated By Richard Westall
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- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Ballantyne and Co., 1813. Both works, bound into one volume, are in first edition, with Don Roderick published in 1811. Rokeby has a frontis portrait of Scott; Don Roderick is extra-illustrated, with an extra engraved title page and two additional plates after Richard Westall, prepared for a later (1812) edition by John Sharpe. Half calf over blind-patterned brown cloth, gilt spine banding, black spine label with the "Rokeby" title, marbled edges and endpapers, (x, 330, cxvi, 4 pp. ads; xii, 122). Externally a little scuffed, with front joint starting to 1" of top, intermittent and foxing throughout, especially to Don Roderick, pages otherwise clean.. First Edition. Half-Leather. Good. 4to (11" x 8.5" or 28 cm x 21.5 cm).
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000020
- Title
- Rokeby: A Poem [Bound together with:] The Vision of Don Roderick: A Poem
- Author
- Scott, Walter [Sir] (1771-1832). Illustrated By Richard Westall
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Ballantyne and Co.
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1813
- Size
- 4to (11" x 8.5" or 28
- Keywords
- SIR WALTER SCOTT EDINBURGH SCOTLAND SCOTTISH AUTHORS POETS LITERATURE BRITISH
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
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East Granby, Connecticut
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Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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