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Chronicles of the Canongate (v.2)

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Type of record: Book

Title: Chronicles of the Canongate (v.2)

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Gen/SCO

Creator(s): Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)

Additional creator(s): Cadell & Co (Other); Simpkin & Marshall (Other); James Ballantyne and Co (Other)

Publisher: Printed for Cadell and Co., Edinburgh; and Simpkin and Marshall, London

Publication city: Edinburgh

Date(s): 1827

Language: English

Size and medium: 2 v ([4], xxviii, 351, [1]; [4], 374, [2], 3-8, [2])

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/280995

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001297519705181

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First edition of the first series.


"In two volumes."--t.p.


With half-titles.


Signatures: v. 1: pi2 a8 b4 c2 A-Y8; v. 2: pi2 A-Z8 2A8.


Printer statement on t.p. verso: "Edinburgh: printed for Ballantyne and Co."


With 8 p. publisher's catalogue at end of v. 2.


The final leaf of v. 2 and the final page of v. 1 are blank.


The sixth capter of v. 1 is headed 'Chapter VII' (p. 111).


Sheets B-O of v. 1 reset in a later issue. This is most easily identified on p. 31, l. 14/15 where 'linea/ments to' is corrected to 'lineage/ to'.--Todd and Bowden.


N6 of v. 1 is usually a cancel, and can be identified by the alteration of 'mother--but I can remember' to 'mother--well I remember' p. 204 l. 15. --Todd and Bowden.


In v. 2, leaves D8 and E1 can both be cancels, D8, on p. 63 l. 15, has 'wretch' altered to 'retch', and E1 in the uncancelled state has 'care' p. 66 l. 16, when cancelled there are duplicate settings, giving either 'care' or 'charge' -- Todd and Bowden.


The introduction, in which the authorship of the Waverley novels is acknowledged, is signed : Walter Scott.


Contents:v. 1. The Highland widow. The two drovers.--v. 2. The surgeon's daughter.


Indexed in: Todd and Bowden 206Aa.

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