[Rarebooks] fa: GEORGE CRUIKSHANK & WALTER SCOTT - DEMONOLOGY AND WITCHCRAFT - 1830

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, along with some other 19th-century British literature,  
auctions ending Sunday, Feb. 7. Details and images can be found at the  
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Thanks,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A., CA USA


Sir Walter Scott: Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, Addressed to  
J.G. Lockhart, Esq. London: John Murray, 1830. FIRST EDITION. Half  
crimson morocco over cloth boards, rules and black morocco spine  
labels stamped in gilt; 16mo; 16, [6], ix, [1], 402 pp.; with the half- 
title and 16-page publisher's catalogue bound in; engraved  
frontispiece + 12 plates. Cohn 188, 731.

With an engraved frontispiece by J. Skene and twelve plates by George  
Cruikshank. Cruikshank's illustrations were issued separately from the  
book as Twelve Sketches illustrative of Sir Walter Scott's Demonology  
and Witchcraft and Scott's work is commonly found without them. In  
this case, the owner had the text and plates bound up together. These  
are presumably the first issues; colored plates didn't appear until  
the reissue of 1834. Demonology and Witchcraft was Scott's  
contribution to his friend and publisher John Murray's "Family  
Library" series and this copy is complete with the 16-page catalogue,  
"Family Library Advertiser."

Binding with some very light rubbing, a hint of darkening to the  
spine; mild dust-soiling to the top of the text block, offsetting from  
and to the frontispiece; otherwise clean and crisp, firmly bound.  
Bookplate of Eugene Ray McCracken to front pastedown. A handsome copy.