Scotland; Sir Walter Scott's Review Copy. Southey (Robert), ...

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Scotland; Sir Walter Scott's Review Copy. Southey (Robert), The Curse of Kehama, association copy, first edition, London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, by James Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh, 1810, half-title, [iv], ix, [i], 376pp, the text block with occasional contemporary inscriptions to: Note, retained original ffep with two distinct later 19th c manuscript inscriptions about the book's provenance: This volume was presented to Mrs. Weatherall, then in Edinburgh, by John Ballantyne Esquire, & is remarkable, as having been the Copy read by Walter Scott, when about to write a Critique upon the book for the Quarterly Review - TW, underneath which is added: T. Weatherale (sic?) the writer of the above note, married Miss Brown, daughter of Thomas Brown Esqr. of Newton House, near Whitby. And at the sale of the pictures, and other property belonging to T. Baron, held at the Angel Inn, Whitby, this volume was purchased by public auction by its present possessor Gideon Buck Present to John Dixon Buck, half-title inner-gutter re-margined, the inscribed ffep repaired, 20th c in-keeping tan quarter-calf over marbled marbled boards, contemporary marbled edges, 4to 

Provenance: 1) Sir Walter Scott, Bt., FRSE, FSAScot (1771-1832), Scottish Romantic poet, novelist and historian; 2) John Ballantyne (1774-1821), the former's publisher, presented by him to; 3) Mrs. Weatherall (?), by descent, until public auction whence sold to; 4) Gideon Buck, 1875, his dated ownership mark and inscription, presented by him to; 5) John Dixon Buck, ironmonger of Whitby, Yorkshire, presumably the latter's son.