Lot Essay
Alvin Langdon Coburn is said to have illustrated two early editions of this work. The images relate stylistically to others by Coburn used for books by James and Maeterlinck in the early 1900s.
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Attributed to ALVIN LANGDON COBURN
'The Lady of the Lake', 1810
By Walter Scott, fifth edition, with fourteen later bound-in platinum prints, each approx. 5½ x 3 in. or the reverse, full morocco, gilt, g.e., titled and dated in gilt on spine, 8vo., Edinburgh: Ballantyne and Co.
'The Lady of the Lake', 1810
By Walter Scott, fifth edition, with fourteen later bound-in platinum prints, each approx. 5½ x 3 in. or the reverse, full morocco, gilt, g.e., titled and dated in gilt on spine, 8vo., Edinburgh: Ballantyne and Co.