THE SCOTTISH CHIEFS BY MISS JANE PORTER 1840 ILLUSTRATED EDITION LEATHER-BOUND
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[PORTER, MISS JANE]. The Scottish Chiefs. London: George Virtue, 1840.
Revised (or first illustrated) edition - dated from preface. Complete in two volumes. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (220 x 135 mm.). Pp. 488; 481. Bound in contemporary half leather, spines gilt, twin morocco lettering pieces. Marbled paper-covered boards. Illustrated throughout with engraved plates, including a full-length portrait frontispiece of the author with original tissue-guard, plus engraved titles. Printed footnotes. Printed by Joseph Rickerby. Condition: GOOD. Bindings tight and secure with the hinges intact. Rubbing to boards and head of spine to vol.1. Some moderate foxing and browning, mostly to the plates. Previous owner details neatly inked to fep's. Title-plate to vol.2 slightly eroded.
Notes: The first illustrated edition in larger format of this important historical novel, with the prefaces to the 1809 first edition, and the 1828 reprint.