The lady of the lake, a poem ... Illustrated with engravings from paintings by Richard Cook
London: published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown & W. Miller; & J. Ballantyne & Co., Edinburgh, 1811. A suite of the 6 engraved illustrations and an engraved vignette title page which were sold separately to accompany the poem, each approx. 10" x 7", and contained in drab paper wrappers, stitching perished; the whole in a drab paper-covered binding with a large printed label on the upper cover; edges rubbed, overall soiling, all else very good, all with tissue guards intact. Without the 2 "advertisement slips" as noted by Todd & Bowden, the first "not seen" by them, and the second noted in the Yale and Harvard copies. Present, however, is a leaf of ads of lately published works by Scott at the back which is not noted by Todd & Bowden. The illustrations are advertised on the label as being for the quarto and the octavo editions of the poem, and for the octavo without the poem, as here - each with a separate price. The first fifteen editions of the poem were issued without plates but could have been extra-illustrated with these plates which were separately published. These plates were announced on a slip tipped into the third edition of 1810. Todd & Bowden 47Dab[3]. Item #67021
Price: $350.00
