Tales of a grandfather; being stories taken from Scottish history. Humbly inscribed to Hugh Littlejohn, Esq. In three vols. First series

by Walter Scott

$2,000 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Edinburgh: printed for Cadell and Co. Edinburgh; Simpkin and Marshall, London; and John Cumming, Dublin, 1828 actually 1827 . First edition, 16mo, pp. 2 , iv, 239, 1 ; 2 , iii, 1 , 320; 2 , iii, 1 , 241, 1 ; inserted engraved frontispiece and vignette title pages in each volume; original half maroon roan over marbled boards, gilt lettering direct on gilt-paneled spines; spines and extremities a bit rubbed, spines lightly sunned and small cracks starting

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