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SCOTT, Sir Walter (1771-1832). The Works of Walter Scott. Edinburgh: James Ballantyne for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806.
6 volumes, 8o (234 x 137 mm). Half titles (scattered spotting and browning). Contemporary dark blue straight-grained morocco, covers with gilt borders, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 3, repeated gilt ornament in the rest, edges gilt concealing alternating fore-edge paintings of NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA IN 1750 (rebacked, old spines laid down, joints and corners rubbed). Provenance: Francis Darby, Colebrookdale (bookplate on lower paste-down endpaper, volume 5 only); Edward Laurence Doheny (bookplate); Estelle Doheny (bookplate; her sale Christie's Camarillo California, 2 February 1988, lot 659).
Weber I, p.148.
6 volumes, 8o (234 x 137 mm). Half titles (scattered spotting and browning). Contemporary dark blue straight-grained morocco, covers with gilt borders, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 3, repeated gilt ornament in the rest, edges gilt concealing alternating fore-edge paintings of NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA IN 1750 (rebacked, old spines laid down, joints and corners rubbed). Provenance: Francis Darby, Colebrookdale (bookplate on lower paste-down endpaper, volume 5 only); Edward Laurence Doheny (bookplate); Estelle Doheny (bookplate; her sale Christie's Camarillo California, 2 February 1988, lot 659).
Weber I, p.148.