SCOTT, WALTER, SIR | Two First Editions, each in original boards. The Rhiwlas Library copies

The Property of a Gentleman

SCOTT, WALTER, SIR

Two First Editions, each in original boards. The Rhiwlas Library copies

The Monastery. A Romance. Edinburgh: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. 3 volumes, 8vo (4 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.; 110 x 190 mm). Publisher's advertisements bound in at front of Vol. I., half-titles. Original blue paper-covered boards, brown paper spines, paper labels to spines; minor rubbing to extremities with some loss of paper, some vertical cracks to spines, a few chips to spines and labels. Each volume in custom quarter green silk over marbled board clamshell case. First edition. Frances Price (ownership signatures to front pastedowns; Rhiwlas Library book label to front pastedowns) of , with 1820 ownership signature and Rhiwlas library book label. — The Abbot. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. 3 volumes, 8vo (4 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.; 110 x 190 mm). Publisher's advertisements bound in at front of Vol. I., half-titles, further advertisements to end of Vol. III; one or two stray spots. Original blue paper-covered boards, brown paper spines, paper labels to spines; minor rubbing to extremities with some loss of paper, one or two vertical cracks to spines. Each volume in custom quarter burgundy linen over marbled board clamshell case. First edition, first state. Frances Price (ownership signatures to front pastedowns; Rhiwlas Library book label to front pastedowns) - Morris Parrish (bookplates to front pastedowns)

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The Rhiwlas estate in northern Wales was founded in the second half of the sixteenth century, and the Price family—who manage the estate to this day— The Price family are descended from one of Henry VII’s supporters.