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The Lady of the Lake, Sir Walter Scott. First Edition, First State.

The Lady of the Lake, Sir Walter Scott. First Edition, First State.
The Lady of the Lake, Sir Walter Scott. First Edition, First State.
The Lady of the Lake, Sir Walter Scott. First Edition, First State.
The Lady of the Lake, Sir Walter Scott. First Edition, First State.
The Lady of the Lake, Sir Walter Scott. First Edition, First State.
The Lady of the Lake, Sir Walter Scott. First Edition, First State.
The Lady of the Lake, Sir Walter Scott. First Edition, First State.
The Lady of the Lake, Sir Walter Scott. First Edition, First State.
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The Lady of the Lake, Sir Walter Scott

First edition, first state of Scott’s phenomenally successful Highland narrative poem, the work that marked the pinnacle of his popularity as a poet and created a nineteenth-century vogue for the Trossachs. One of 2,000 copies of the initial large quarto edition, this copy has the first-impression reading “e’er” on page 86 and retains “END OF CANTO SIXTH” at the foot of page 288, the defining first-state setting; it also has press figure “11” on page xxiv of the Notes and retains the terminal errata on page cxxix. (Todd & Bowden 47Aa.) 

Edinburgh: Printed for John Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, London; by James Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh, 1810. Quarto, approximately 11 by 8¾ inches; [10], 290, cxxix, [1] pages. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Scott with his dog Camp by James Heath after James Saxon. Full brown calf, covers ruled in gilt, spine with four double raised bands, gilt-ruled compartments and lettering, gray endpapers, and all edges gilt. A very good copy, with light shelfwear and rubbing to the boards, joints, and extremities, bumped corners, and a small circular moisture mark to the front board; the joints remain sound and both boards are firmly attached. Internally crisp, with scattered light toning and foxing, offsetting from the frontispiece to the title, occasional small smudges. A very attractive copy.

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