![[FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. SCOTT, Walter (1771-1832). The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland comprising specimens of the Architecture, Sculpture, and other Vestiges of Former Ages. London: Longman [and others], 1814-17.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2008/NYR/2008_NYR_02059_0103_000(045156).jpg?w=1)
Property from the Collection of Harold K. Douthit
[FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. SCOTT, Walter (1771-1832). The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland comprising specimens of the Architecture, Sculpture, and other Vestiges of Former Ages. London: Longman [and others], 1814-17.
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[FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. SCOTT, Walter (1771-1832). The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland comprising specimens of the Architecture, Sculpture, and other Vestiges of Former Ages. London: Longman [and others], 1814-17.
2 volumes, 4o (278 x 215 mm), 2 additional engraved title-pages and 92 plates by Grieg after Clennell. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt extra, all edges gilt concealing FINE FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS of Warksworth Castle, Northumberland and Carrick Castle (scuffed at the head of each spine, hinges weak). Provenance: William Hartmann Woodin (1868-1934), Industrialist and Secretary of the Treasury 1933 (bookplate); Carl I. Wheat (1892-1966), author of 1540-1861 Mapping the Transmississippi West. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press for The Institute of Historical Cartography, 1957 - 1963 (bookplates, initials dated 1942); Harold Douthit (bookplates). FIRST EDITION. (2)
2 volumes, 4