Scott and Scotland

by Fore-edge painting, Leitch Ritchie, Sir Walter Scott

$1,350 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1835. First edition. Featuring a pretty double fore-edge painting with two charming views: when viewed one way, an isolated estate in a field foregrounded by a river and a bridge; the other way, the steeple of a church rising over a riverwalk and a grove of trees. Contemporary red leather tooled and titled in gilt. Twelvemo. iv, 4 , 256 pp.

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