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SCOTT, Walter. The Poetical Works, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1820. 12 volumes, 12°, engraved portrait (occasional mainly marginal spotting), contemporary green straight-grained morocco, covers with gilt floral roll-tool border, spines gilt in compartments (lightly rubbed), armorial bookplate of John Mervin ?Proner, each volume with a FORE-EDGE PAINTING.
The fore-edge paintings of Scottish subjects include views of The Isle of Staffa, the Tweed, St. Andrews, the harbour at Tobermory, Montrose, Dunvegan Castle, Loch Tay, Holyrood Palace, Linlithgow and Inverary Castle. (12)
The fore-edge paintings of Scottish subjects include views of The Isle of Staffa, the Tweed, St. Andrews, the harbour at Tobermory, Montrose, Dunvegan Castle, Loch Tay, Holyrood Palace, Linlithgow and Inverary Castle. (12)