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Fine Literature
1:00 PM PT - Oct 9th, 2008

 

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Lot 4251 save

Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe

Title: Ivanhoe
Author: Scott, Sir Walter
Description: 3 volumes. [6], xxxiii, [1 (blank)], 298; [4], 327; [4], 371, [1 (blank)], +3 ad pp. Period half calf with marbled sides, spines gilt. First Edition.Scott's best remembered and most famous work. "Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. Edinburgh on Volume 1 title page verso; press mark "9" on page iii; page iv, line 6 first word "Peter". Volume 1 and 2 with title page in state with exclamation over of final 'R' in "prior"; Volume 3 title page with exclamation mark over space between 'O' and 'R' in "prior" [no priority]. Volume 1, page 296, line 11 with a single quotation mark after "journey". Half-titles and ads present. Not misnumbered, but conforming to other points in Todd and Bowden 140A; Worthington 8; Grolier English 100, 71.
Heading: Place Published: Edinburgh
Publisher: For Archibald Constable; and Hurst, Robinson & Co.
Date Published: 1820

Condition report

Spines worn and cracked, corners well-rubbed and chipped; front cover of Vol. 3 detached; endpapers stained, with occasional text foxing, otherwise a remarkably clean, very good set.

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