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[FORE?EDGE PAINTING]. SCOTT, Walter, Sir (1771?1832). Rokeb...

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[FORE?EDGE PAINTING]. SCOTT, Walter, Sir (1771?1832). Rokeby; A Poem. Edinburgh: printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; et al, 1821. 8vo (210 x 127 mm). Half?title. Contemporary red straight?grain morocco, gilt cover border with alternating tools, spine gilt, all edges gilt, concealing a FORE?EDGE PAINTING of John Knox?s house in Edinburgh (upper cover detached, joints rubbed). Provenance: John Hely?Hutchinson (book label); Gladys McKenney Molony (dated inscription), collector of fore?edge paintings; presented by Molony to the Saint?Mary?of?the?Woods College Library (bookplate); sold at the Robert Brown Auction in 2007 at the Saint?Mary?of?the?Woods College Library sale.