Halidon Hill; a dramatic sketch from Scottish history

by Sir Walter Scott, Bart

$375 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Edinburgh: printed for Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson, and Co. London, 1822. First edition, second impression with dagger on p. 14 ; 8vo, pp. 8 ads , 2 , 8 ads , 111, 1 ; original drab printed wrappers; near fine. As Scott explained to Byron the day after issue, this sketch was intended for Joanna Baille's forthcoming Collection of Poems 1823 but, as it soon 'ran out of bounds,' was now published separately. The author

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