The Lord of the Isles
Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1857 [first thus].
Octavo, [iv], 367 pages with numerous illustrations (wood engravings by J.W. Whymper and Edmund Evans from drawings by Birket Foster and John Gilbert) plus a frontispiece and supplementary engraved pictorial title page (after J.M.W. Turner).
Contemporary gilt-decorated full dark green morocco, all edges gilt; extremities a little rubbed (mainly the corners and the front joint); sides slightly scuffed and lightly marked; spine sunned (to olive-green); endpapers slightly marked and a little discoloured around the edges (where in contact with the turned-over leather); a very good copy with the armorial bookplate of J.P. Campbell.
A poem in six cantos on Robert Bruce, first published in 1815; this edition, 'as we now have it in the Author's MS' is published 'with all his introductions, and the editor's notes'.
Item #75752
Price (AUD):
$200.00