The Property of a Gentleman
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June 21, 04:55 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
The Property of a Gentleman
SCOTT, WALTER, SIR
Three First Editions
The Abbot. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. 3 volumes, 8vo (4 3/8 x 7 1/2 in.; 110 x 190 mm). Half-titles, publisher's advertisements and blank leaf to end of Vol. III; a few stray spots, minor offsetting. Original drab boards, blue marbled paper spines, paper labels to spines; running to extremities, vertical creases and chips to spines. First edition, first state. Todd & Bowden 146Aa; Worthington 10 — Kenilworth. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1821. 3 volumes, 8vo (4 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.; 121 x 198 mm). Half-titles, publisher's advertisements to end of Vol. III; some minor foxing. Original blue paper covered boards, paper labels to spines; some rubbing and soiling, lower board of Vol. III detached. In custom quarter blue morocco slipcase and folding chemise. First edition. Estelle Doheny (book label to front pastedown) — The Fortunes of Nigel. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1822. 8vo. 3 volumes, 8vo (4 1/8 x 7 5/8 in.; 120 x 195 mm). Half-titles, publisher's advertisements to end of Vol. III; minor foxing. Original drab boards, paper labels to spine, some toning and soiling, spines sunned with some vertical cracks and chips, ownership signatures clipped from each front free endpaper. First edition
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