The Lay of the Last Minstrel( Volume 6 of The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.)

Printed for Robert Caddell & Whittaker & Co, London. 382 pages. Size 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Condition Good, no jacket. Bumping and rubbing to edges and corners. Centre third of spine containing title, author and vol. no. intact.Title text clean with none of the gilding missing. However, the lower and upper thirds of the spine leather are detatched and missing. Original brown full leather cover. Retains much of the original gilt border and all of the intricaqte blind stamping on front and rear cover. Marbled covers and end papers. Internally it is complete, nice and tight. Full page engraved frontispiece "Melrose" drawn JMW Turner RA, engraved W. Miller. Title piece engraving "Newark Castle" drawn JMW Turner RA engraved by W J Cooke. Both clean with no marking. Page 51 full page engraving "Branksome Tower" drawn D Copley Fielding, engraved W. Radclyffe. Page 79 Full page engraving "Melrose" Drawn G. Barret, engraved J. McGahey. Page 205 full page engraving "Rostin and Hawthornden" drawn JMW Turner RA, engraved by W.R. Smith. Last 3 engravings mentioned have some foxing and spotting mainly to margins very rather than the engraved area. …