The lord of the isles / by Sir Walter Scott, Bart. With all his introductions, and the editor’s notes. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood from drawings by Birket Foster and John Gilbert.
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Category
Books
Date
1857
Materials
Place of origin
Edinburgh
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3233773
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 367 p., plate : ill. ; 22cm (8vo). Bookseller's ticket: Bought of Willis and Sotheran, booksellers & bookbinders, 12, Charing Cross. Provenance: nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of William Rowley [i.e. Lt.-Col. William Chambré Rowley, 6th Baron Langford of Summerhill (1849-1931)]. Inscribed on verso of flyleaf: Hon. W. Rowley Prize for Mathematics Class ii. Cheam, Dec: 1862. Binding: nineteenth-century gold tooled red morocco; five false bands; gold lettered spine; all edges gold.
Makers and roles
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Myles Birket Foster (North Shields 1825 – Weybridge 1899) Sir John Gilbert (1817-1897)