Oxford Complete Edition The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott
edited by J. Logie Robertson, M.A.
Henry Frownde at Oxford University Press, 1908
A very presentable binding with a lovely Art Nouveau style decorative vellum spine. Presented to Doris Moody as 1st Prize for General Progress July 1908 at Stourbridge Girls’ Secondary School.
Hardback. Vellum spine with gilt title on red leather label, with gilt and red decoration; pale red cloth boards; gilt to top edge of page-block; sewn-in ribbon page marker. pp viii, 970, [1] colophon, plus b/w portrait frontispiece. Size: 7.5 x 5 inches approx. (190mm x 129mm).
Spine a little discoloured and marked; cloth a touch dusty and lightly shelf worn. Offsetting and foxing to endpapers, particularly front; school prize label to front paste-down; occasional dustiness, mark, and corner creasing, but pages generally very clean throughout; gilt to top edge a touch dusty and dulled.
Overall, light wear but otherwise a particularly nicely preserved copy – lovely indeed.
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