[Rarebooks] fs-Walter Scott, Roughead, and the Porteous Riots

[Joe Luttrell]

May we offer,

[SCOTT, SIR WALTER & WILLIAM ROUGHEAD].  Criminal Trials,
Illustrative of the Tale Entitled "The Heart of Mid-Lothian,"
Published from the Original Record: with a Prefatory Notice,
Including Some Particulars of the Life of Captain John Porteous.
Todd and Bowden 123A.  Printed for Archibald Constable and Company,
Edinburgh, 1818.  Contemporary straight-grained crimson morocco,
the spine extra gilt, marbled endpapers, somewhat rubbed, but a
very appealing, even luscious, copy. [72090] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=72090     $ 750.00

William Roughead's copy (with his elaborate bookplate) of the work
accompanying Scott's novel immortalizing the Porteous Riots, the
resulting trials for which were one of Roughead's first efforts for
the Notable British Trials series.

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