The private letter-books of Sir Walter Scott : selections from the Abbotsford manuscripts / edited by Wilfred Partington ; with a letter to the reader from Hugh Walpole.
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Category
Books
Date
1930
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3254119
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiv, [1], 397, [3] p., plates : ill., ports., facsims. ; 26 cm. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on front free endpaper: "Inscribed to / Lord Fairhaven / whose own book on the / Life Guards / I greatly esteem. / Wilfred Partington / May 5, 1930." [i.e. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966), from the author Wilfrid Partington (1888-1955)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's blue cloth; gilt stamped coat of arms of Sir Walter Scott on upper board and spine; gilt lettered upper board and spine.
Makers and roles
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), author Wilfred George Partington (b.1888) , editor Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884 - 1941), author