HALIDON HILL; A Dramatic Sketch from Scottish History
by SCOTT, Sir Walter
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1822. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 112, with publisher's catalogue tipped to the front, untrimmed in original printed wraps. Spine chipped, ties loose. A good copy of a fragile item. Some foxing. CBEL III, 370; Todd & Bowden158Aa; Ruff 171, (the advertisements are not called for). Scott wrote Halidon Hill as a result of a request from Joanna Baillie for a contribution to a poetical miscellany she was then editing. However, Scott's intended short work grew far too large for the original purpose and was substituted by another work. Constable 'without seeing the MS., forthwith tendered £1000 for the copyright - the same sum that had appeared almost irrationally munificent when offered in 1807 for the embryo Marmion' [Lockhart].
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- Bookseller
- Second Life Books Inc (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26207
- Title
- HALIDON HILL; A Dramatic Sketch from Scottish History
- Author
- SCOTT, Sir Walter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Archibald Constable
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1822
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