The Lady of the Lake
Edinburgh: John Ballantyne and Co., 1810. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. THE LADY OF THE LAKE; A POEM. SCOTT, Sir Walter [1771-1832]. Published by Edinburgh: Printed for John Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh & Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, London, by James Ballantyne and Co., 1810. (1810) SCOTT, Walter, Sir. THE LADY OF THE LAKE. A POEM. Edinburgh: John Ballantyne and others, 1810. 8vo. Contemporary full blind and gilt tooled calf, all edges marbled. Weak joints but still a strong binding with clean crisp text. (x), 433 pages. Second edition. Scott wrote The Lady in the Lake in 1810, and this is the fourth edition. It became such a popular work that it went through twelve editions that first year alone. He was drawing on the romance of the Arthurian legend but with an entirely different story set around Loch Katrine in the Trossachs of Scotland. STIJ011. Good. Item #191
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