Redgauntlet. A Tale of the Eighteenth Century.

First Edition, 3 vols., contemporary bookplate pasted to new pastedown, rebound, quarter black morocco over cloth, spines gilt, red morocco label, marbled edges, 8vo, Edinburgh, for Archibald Constable and Co., 1824 Set primarily in Dumfriesshire, in 1765, Redgauntlet describes a plot to start a fictional third Jacobite Rebellion. Magnus Magnusson describes the work as "the most autobiographical of Scott's novels." Provenance: Samuel Wildman Dates.