The Lady of the Lake - Walter Scott (1810 Ballantyne & Co, Edinburgh)

The Lady of the Lake - Walter Scott

Ballantyne & Co, Edinburgh

1810 fifth edition

Beautiful vintage copy, well over 200 years old!

Condition is very good for the age.

Leather. Condition: Good. None (illustrator). An attractive morocco-bound fifth edition of Sir Walter Scott's popular narrative poem, published within the same year as the first. The fifth edition of this work. An early edition published in the same year as the first.In full morocco binding with marbled endpapers.The Lady of the Lake is one of Sir Walter Scott's classic poems, composed of six cantos, each of which concerns the action of a single day. The work was largely influential and inspired the revival of Romanticism in Scotland.The poem has three main plots: the contest to win the love of Ellen Douglas among three men, the feud and reconciliation of King James V of Scotland and James Douglas, and a war between the Lowland Scots and the Highland clans. In full morocco binding with marbled endpapers. Externally, smart. With moderate rubbing to the extremities, heaviest to the edges and spine. Marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with the occasional spot, heaviest to the first and last few leaves. Good. book.