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SCOTT, Sir Walter (1771-1832). THE WORKS, comprising: The Miscellaneous Prose Works , Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, London: Whittaker, 1834-40. 28 volumes, 12° (168 x 105mm). Engraved frontispiece and title in each volume. (Mainly light spotting.) Late 19th-century half calf bound for William Brown red and tan morocco lettering-pieces, top edges gilt, others uncut (small repairs to either head or tail of spine of vols. V, VIII, XI and XII). cf. Todd & Bowden 350a. Waverley Novels , Edinburgh: Cadell & Company, London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1829-1833. 48 volumes, 12° (168 x 105mm). Engraved frontispiece and title in each volume. (Frontispieces and titles mostly spotted or browned, beginning of vols. I-VIII and XII waterstained, occasional spotting.) Late 19th-century half calf bound for William Brown red and black morocco lettering-pieces, top edges gilt, others uncut (tail of spines of first 5 vols. with light watermark). Final revised edition, first impression, first issue. Todd & Bowden 348a. The Poetical Works , Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, London: Whittaker, 1833-1834. 12 volumes, 12° (169 x 105mm). Engraved frontispiece and title in each volume. (Frontispieces and titles browned, waterstained in the last 3 vols., occasional spotting.) Late 19th-century half calf bound for William Brown red and blue morocco lettering-pieces, top edge gilt, others uncut (tail of spines of last 3 vols. lightly waterstained). With Scott's Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, addressed to Mr. Lockhart (London, 1830, bound as volume 29 of Scott's Prose ), J. G. Lockhart's Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott (Edinburgh, 1839, 10 vols., second edition), Robert Chambers' Illustrations of the Author of Waverley (Edinburgh, 1884, one of 400 copies on ordinary paper), and Sir Walter Scott Sir James Mackintosh and Thomas Moore's The Cabinet History of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 vols., London, 1830), all bound as above. (102)