First Edition: Peveril of the Peak. By the Author of "Waverley, Kenilworth", &c. In Four Volumes. Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., London. 1822.
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Provenance:
Bookplate of Charles Grote. The admiral shield depicts a Tudor shield with slips into two sections, the left section taking up one third of the shield has small black dots which were used to depict gold in crests. The second half taking up two thirds of the shield depicts three trees on a hill. Above the shield there is an esquire or gentleman's helmet with a wreath above which has a tree inside of a u shaped object.
Size: 120 x 184 mm (approx., each)
Condition:
[half title, title, i-xxxii, 302pp.]; [half title, title, 319pp.]; [half title, title, 315pp.]; [half title, title, 320pp.]
Spines with minor rubbing. All boards securely attached with very minor wear to joints and hinges. Boards with very minor rubbing. Shelf and edge wear. Dulling to page edges. Foxed and toned bookplate attached to front pastedown in all volumes. Text blocks very clean with light toning to edges and very sporadic very minor foxing.
[OCLC: 2392685].
