illustrated book;
print
- Museum number
- 1880,0110.1-7
- Description
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'Marmion: a tale of flodden field. By Walter Scott, esq. The eight edition' (Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co) 1811; containing 6 etchings after Westall, all plates with title 'Marmion' and verse: 1. page 50, 'For no saluting did he wait / but strode across the hall of state...', by Engleheart, 2. page 100, 'Her look composed, and steady eye / bespoke a matchless constancy', by Charles Heath, 3. page 138, 'Still fixed on Marmion was his look / which he who ill such gaze could brook...', by S. Noble, 4. page 208, 'High o'er my head with threatening hand / the spectre shook his naked brand', by F. Engleheart, 5. page 262, 'The monarch o'er the syren hung / and beat the measure as she sung', by James Mitan, 6. page 366, 'Charge, Chester, CHarge! On, Stanley, on!...', by James Heath. Together with vignette on title-page showing shield and armour next to a fountain with a cross above, etched by John Pye. With dedication to Henry, Lord Montagu, cato dedicated to William Stewart Rose, advertisement, and table of contents. Bound in brown leather, with gold tooling at the spine.
Etching
- Production date
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1809 (earlier edition)
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1811 (this edition (8th))
- Dimensions
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Height: 205 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each page)
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Width: 125 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Illustrated title-page is published in London and dated 1809 (likely the first edition) while the letterpress title-page gives the publisher in Edinburgh and dated 1811.
Cataloguing supported by the Elizabeth Cayzer Charitable Trust
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Marmion: a tale of flodden field
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1880,0110.1-7
