1910 A DAY WITH SIR WALTER SCOTT by MAY CLARISSA BYRON

1910

Above is the complete title page and colophon,

plus year from COPAC data.

First edition; contains 6 color plates by N. M. Price, plus illustrated endpapers, purple silk place-holder, and color front board inset.

From Days with the Poets series, which included Longfellow, Tennyson, Keats, Browning, Wordsworth, Burns, Byron, and Shelley.

BIOGRAPHY:

Walter Scott (1771-1832) Scottish author, novelist, poet, baronet, wrote numerous popular works including Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor.

May Clarissa Gillington Byron (c. 1850-1936), English author, obscure but prolific, wrote Peter Pan and Wendy, Jams and Jellies, Ruff & Reddy, A Day with Morris, Scott, Whitman, Coleridge, Emerson and Wagner.

COLOR PLATES:

1. Clare on the Battlements of Tantallon

2. Matilda

3. True Thomas and the Fairy Queen

4. The Pibroch of Donald Dhu (also front inset)

5. The Ride of William of Deloraine

6. The Bearing of the Fiery Cross

BOOK DESCRIPTION:

7.50” x 5” x 0.50”

5 ounces, 46 pages

45+ (1)

Red suede leather over soft card covers that are well attached, rubbed and damp stained; front cover is bent near fore edge, front and back yapp fore edges are chipped. Backstrip is chipped. Binding is shaken between frontispiece and title page but holding; half title and frontispiece loose midway to tail. Rest of binding is good, no loose, missing, bent or torn pages; some damp stain verso frontispiece. Leaves have no foxing, fading or offset.

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This book is from the collection of Donald Hawthorne, antiquarian bookseller for over 60 years.