detroitlib:Happy Birthday Sir Walter Scott! (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) Scottish historical
detroitlib:Happy Birthday Sir Walter Scott! (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet.From our stacks:1. Cover of The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott. With Life, By Wiiliam Cambers, LL.D. New York: R. Worthington, 1883.2. “Facsimile concluding page of Scott’s Ms. of “The Lord of the Isles.” from The Poems of Sir Walter Scott. Unusually Illustrated In two Volumes Vol. II. London: Merrill & Baker, n.d. “Edition de Luxe Limited to Five Hundred Registered and Numbered Copies Number 479″3. Frontispiece “Smailholme Tower. Engraved on steel by E. Goodall from the painting by J.M.W. Turner, R.A.” fromThe Poems of Sir Walter Scott. Unusually Illustrated In two Volumes Vol. II. London: Merrill & Baker, n.d. “Edition de Luxe Limited to Five Hundred Registered and Numbered Copies Number 479″4. J.W. Whymper“And ne’er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace, Of finer form, or lovelier face!” excerpt from “The Lady of the Lake”fromThe Poems of Sir Walter Scott. Unusually Illustrated In two Volumes Vol. I. London: Merrill & Baker, n.d. “Edition de Luxe Limited to Five Hundred Registered and Numbered Copies Number 479″5. “Statuette by John Steell, R.S.A., 1849.” fromThe Poems of Sir Walter Scott. Unusually Illustrated In two Volumes Vol. II. London: Merrill & Baker, n.d. “Edition de Luxe Limited to Five Hundred Registered and Numbered Copies Number 479″ -- source link
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