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Scott, Sir Walter. Poetical works. Including Introduction and Notes. With original illustrations engraved by the Dalziel Brothers. London: Frederick Warne and Co. Bedford Street, Covent Garden; New York: Scribner, Welford and Co., 1868. London: Savill Edwards and Co., printers Chandos Street. viii, 640p. 10 plates. The frontispiece plate is a portrait of Walter Scott. Of the ten plates, Robin de Beaumont has identified four by James Abbot Pasquier: (the plates opposite pages 34, 96, 148, 190, which have his monogram), Arthur Boyd Houghton, James Mahoney (plate opposite page 377, which has his monogram). The plate opposite page 34 is entitled: “/ Yet not Lord Cranstoun deign’d she greet,/ Though now he kneeled at her feet./ Lay of the Last Minstral./” Robin de Beaumont's notes regarding price and dating of this copy are written on the front endpaper verso. This volume is one of the “Chandos Poets” series. The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the front paste down. Binding: Test… (See Merlin record for full description)
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