CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE, AND OTHER ARTISTS OF EMINENCE.
Pictorial Illustrations of the Novels of Sir Walter Scott, in Their Order of Publication.
Edited by Charles Rogers. Edinburgh Seton & Mackenzie, 1871 preface. 1st edition?. Size [71p, 52 illustrations, frontispiece of Scott] (A souvenir book to mark the centenary of the birth of Scott.) Red cloth hardboards with gold lettering & black border design, covers soiled & darkened especially along borders, spine darkened, spine ends worn & frayed up to 1/2 inch, torn spine edges repaired using pva, corners very worn through cloth, minor wear to some bevelled edges, gold page ends dulled, cream end papers marked & smudged perhaps by child, broken hinges repaired using pva, text pages very good though lightly greyed & occasional spotting or smudge, illustrations very good except occasional spotting or smudge in outside border, title page & adjacent with small brown spotting, a second frontispiece missing or perhaps the frontispiece tissue, Fair

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