Manuscript fragment of biographical portrait of English novelist Robert Bage 1730-1801

by Sir Walter Scott

$850 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

11 lines, pen and ink on paper. 7-3/4 x 3 inches. Inlaid. See Todd 148A. Item #316396 Scott's biographical sketches were first published as prefaces to Ballantynes Novelist's Library 1821-4, 10 vols. . Robert Bage's novels Mount Henneth 1781 , Barham Downs 1784 , and James Wallace 1792 were published in vol. IX, 1824.Reading in part: Bage's whole efforts are turned to the development of human character and it must be owned he

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