Author: Ryley, S[amuel]. W[illiam. 1759 - 1837]
Title: The ITINERANT In SCOTLAND. In Three Volumes
Description: London: Printed for Sherwood, and Co. Paternoster Row, Constable, Edinburgh; and Griffin, Glasgow, 1850. 1st edition thus. Not in Wolff. Period dark brown half leather bindings with marbled paper boards. Each volume now protected by a custom cut clear mylar wrapper. 3 volumes: [6], iv, 336; 322; 322 pp. Crown 8vo. Per OCLC, "A fictional account of an actor's journey through Scotland." Originally issued in 1827 as the final 3v part of a 9 volume memoir, which began publication in 1808. Rare, with RBH showing no sales history for this 1850 edition, and, at the time of cataloguing, OCLC recording just 2 institutional holdings, of which just one is in the US. Bindings worn & soiled, boards rubbed. Leather chipping at spine ends, especially Vol II. Vol I with A4 [last page of dedication] bound after A6 [2nd leaf of preface]. Prior owner signature(s). A Good set.

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