![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.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1998/CSK/1998_CSK_08219_0098_000(112659).jpg?w=1)
Details
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)
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)