The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott With Life by William Chambers, LL.D. / Sir Walter Scott
Book
536 pages. Tissue guarded frontis.
Red bordered text.
2015.7.118
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
1880s
7-1/2 in
5 in
Walter Scott
Chicago
Illinois
United States
North America
circa 1886
Publisher's Binding- Gold Band Titles
Bound in putty colored cloth with black and brown stamping. Elaborate spine decoration featuring three leafed clovers and flowers with the top clover entering the wide gilt stamped title band. Publisher's name to bottom of spine stamped in gilt. Same motif to front board with black stamped title within gilt rectangle Geometric patterned endpapers. All edges gilt.
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William Chambers
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