SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. A New Life Supplementary to, and Corrective of, Lockhart’s Biography

[Scott, Sir Walter]; Grierson, Sir Herbert. SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. A New Life Supplementary to, and Corrective of, Lockhart’s Biography (London: Constable and Co, 1938).

FIRST EDITION. Grierson’s fine biography of one of the greatest names in English literature. This was the first edition available other then as part of the twelve volume set of Scott’s letters. Item #23769

First separate edition, first issue. With a finely engraved frontispiece of the author from the 1830 original portrait painted by John Watson Gordon. 8vo, publisher’s original navy blue cloth gilt lettered on the spine, untrimmed. xii, 320, tipped in erratum pp. A fine copy, the binding just a tad mellowed at the edges and extremities.

Price: $65.00