By Mary Monica Maxwell Scott
London   Adam and Charles Black
12.5" by 10.5" xvi, 66pp
The first edition of this colourfully illustrated guide to the relics in Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott.
By Mary Monica Maxwell Scott

1893 Abbotsford the Personal Relics and Antiquarian Treasures of Sir Walter Scott

London   Adam and Charles Black
12.5" by 10.5" xvi, 66pp
The first edition of this colourfully illustrated guide to the relics in Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott.
£90.00
: 2kgs / : 936P25

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Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition.

A charming volume looking at the beauty of Abbotsford, the history country house in the Scottish Borders which was built by Sir Walter Scott. 

Abbotsford is an impressive house built by Scott, which included a large library of more than 9,000 volumes, and has been described as a "castle-in-miniature". This volume, by Scott's great-granddaughter, Mary Monica Maxwell-Scott, highlights the beauty of the house, and the antiquarian treasures within it. She herself settled at Abbotsford, and repaired the house.

Illustrated with a chromolithograph frontispiece, and twenty-five chromolithograph plates, by William Gibb. Collated, complete.

Condition

In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Minor marks to the boards. Spine is discoloured. Institutional label to the front paste down, torn label to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with a few light handling marks. Institutional stamp to a few pages.

Very Good

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