The monastery : A romance (v.3)
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Type of record: Book
Title: The monastery : A romance (v.3)
Classmark: BC Gen/SCO
Creator(s): Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)
Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, Bookseller to the King, Edinburgh
Publication city: Edinburgh
Date(s): 1820
Language: English
Size and medium: 3 v ([4], [1], 2-58, [1], 60-76, [3], 80-331, [1] p.; [4], 333, [3] p.; [4], 351, [1] p)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/281107
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001307469705181
Description
First edition.
"In three volumes"--t.p.
The final page of vols. 1 & 3 and the last 3 pages of vol. 2 are blank.
In volume 1, pages [1]-58 contain the 'Introductory Epistle' signed by 'Cuthbert Clutterbuck'; pages [59]-76 the 'Answer' by 'the author of Waverly'. Page [77] is the fly-title, and pages [79]-331 the text.
In some copies of vol. 1, page 226, last line, the word "attention" is altered to "attentoin" these two states appear in both the first and second editions.
In some copies of vol. 1, page 263 is misnumbered 268. --cf. Todd and Bowden.
In vol. 2, chapter numbers on pages 26 and 63 both read 'II', and those for 89 and 123 read 'III' all subsequent chapter numbers are short by two.
The only Scott publication where John Ballantyne used "bookseller to the King" in the title imprint.--cf. Todd and Bowden.
Colophon: Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne & Co. ('and Co.' in vols. 2-3.).
The first and second editions of this novel are identical except for 'Second edition' printed on the title page of the latter.--cf. Todd and Bowden.
Indexed in: Worthington 9.
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