Tales of my landlord (v.1)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Tales of my landlord (v.1)
Other titles: Tales of my landlord; Bride of Lammermoor; Legend of Montrose
Classmark: BC Gen/SCO
Creator(s): Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)
Publisher: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row; and Hurst, Robinson, and Co. 90, Cheapside, London
Publication city: Edinburgh
Date(s): 1819
Language: English
Size and medium: 4 v ([4], 333, [3]; [4], 324; [4], 333, [3]; [4], 330, 4, [2] p)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/281061
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001306639705181
Description
First edition.
"In four volumes."-- t.p.
The final 3 p. of v.1 and 3, and final 2 p. of v. 4 are blank.
Printer statement on half-title verso: "Printed by James Ballantyne and Co.".
With half-titles in each volume: "Tales of my landlord, third series." On the half-title verso for v. 1-2 is found a quotation from "Don Quixote" together with a translation; this is also found in some versions of v. 3-4, but alternatively on the half-title verso for v. 3 an advertisement for "Illustrations of the novels and tales of the author of Waverly." and for v. 4 an advertisement for "Memoirs of the most renowned James Graham, Marquis of Montrose." may be found.
With fly titles in v. 1-3: "The bride of Lammermoor." and in v. 3-4: "A legend of Montrose.".
Volume 3 contains the final 8 chapters of "The bride of Lammermoor" preceeded by the relevent fly-title; followed by the first 8 chapters of "A legend of Lammermoor." also preceeded by fly-title.
v. 1: sig. N2 reversed to 2N. v. 2: sig N2 missigned N3. Occasionally the title imprint has a comma after the last "Co". --cf. Todd and Bowden.
4 p. advertisements for Archibald Constable and Co., dated: June, 1819. at end.
Contents:v. 1-3: The bride of Lammermoor.--v. 3-4: A legend of Montrose.
Indexed in: Todd and Bowden 135Aa.
Additional description
Set is uncut, in the original paper boards
Access and usage
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