Catalogue of the library at Abbotsford
Edinburgh: [privately printed by T. Constable for J. G. Lockhart for members of the Maitland Club], 1838. First edition, 4to, pp. iv, [8], 463, [1]; printed on handmade paper; slightly later half brown morocco by Riviere, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 1, t.e.g., the others uncut; slight newspaper shadow on title page from a tipped-in clipping on the verso of the front free endpaper; small smudge mark at the base of the front board, the whole lightly rubbed; very good and sound. Lockhart was married to Scott's eldest daughter Sophia, and they settled on Scott's estate until he became editor of The Quarterly Review in London. His biography of Scott was his greatest book. "He had admirable materials in Scott's letters and journals, but he turned them to such account that the biography may safely be described as, next to Boswell's Johnson, the best in the language" (DNB). Item #49794
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