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Please send £20.00 (£30.00 / U.S.$55.00 overseas, airmail) for four issues, specifying the catalogues you would like to receive. THE ROMANTICS: PART III. S-Z ISBN: 978 1 910156 01 8 Price £5.00 Front cover adapted from item 323; back cover item 274. Brian Lake Janet Nassau cata 210 text.indd 1 14/08/2014 17:01:52 SCOTT SCOTT, Sir Walter, Bart., 1771-1832 Playwright, poet, and historical novelist, Scott was the pre-eminent figure of late Romanticism in Scotland, who established a distinctly Scottish literary canon. He began his career as a poet; Waverley, 1814, was the first of many hugely successful novels. He remained a prolific writer until the very last, in part due to his parlous financial situation, caused by the bankruptcy of the publisher Ballantyne & Co., with whom he was a partner. See also items 368, 564, 665, 676, 680, 692, 712, 715, 716, 724, 728, 729, 734, 736 & 790. Manuscript PETITION TO SCOTT AS SHERIFF OF SELKIRK 1. Manuscript Petition ‘Unto the Honourable The Sheriff Depute of the Shire of Selkirk and his Substitute The Petition of Elizabeth Brunton ... That my husband’s affairs being at the time of his Death somewhere in confusion when Mr. George Rodger writer in Selkirk ... disposed upon his moveable effects and also about five years ago turned me and my helpless infant out of my dwelling house and has since refused to give me account of the proceeds arising from said sales to my great hurt and prejudice ...’ and requesting Scott, as Sheriff, to ‘ordain the said Rodger with a short time to produce an account of his procedure ...’ and signed Betty Brunton. 30 lines on 1p, 4to. The verso is titled ‘Petition of Elizabeth Brunton 1802’ and COUNTERSIGNED BY SCOTT: ‘Selkirk Appoints this petition to be seen and answered, Walter Scott’. ¶Scott was appointed Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire on December 16, 1799. During the winter & summer terms Scott worked as advocate in Edinburgh, and during the spring recess and from July - November he was in Selkirk. 1802 £450 † ‘MY DEAREST CHARLOTTE’ 2. ALS to his wife, Charlotte, 5 April Jermyn Street. ‘My dearest Charlotte, I have just time to say that I have altered my plan being bored of waiting for Mrs W.S. ... As I am thus left to the freedom of my own will I set off tomorrow by the West road - & have accordingly taken my tickets for Manchester tomorrow. I will therefore be at home on Wednesday or Thursday perhaps I may come in for a few hours at Abbotsford on Monday in which case I will be with you that evening or Tuesday. A part of my motions will of course depend on the fatigue which I dare say will not be great. I never felt stronger. Love to Anne & to all yours ever affectionately ...’ 25 lines on 2pp, 8vo; integral blank with address in another hand: 36 Albany Street. ¶Charlotte, née Carpenter, married Scott on Christmas Eve 1797 and died in May 1826. Anne, the Scotts’ daughter, was born in 1803. This letter dates from 1821, when Scott visited London with Sir William Rae, the Lord Advocate. Their primary purpose was to see through Parliament a bill ‘partly to relieve them of the labour of signing in person the thousands of formal writs issued from their offices’. While in London, Scott lodged with Rae at the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn Street. He sat for his portrait by Thomas Lawrence and was lionised by London Society. The ‘Court of Session’ bill cleared Parliament on March 26; despite Scott’s anxiety to return home to see his first grandchild, son of his daughter Sophia, he remained in London to consult with the Duke of York on his son Walter’s military career. Scott had intended to travel to Edinburgh by sea, but instead took the stagecoach, leaving London on the 6th & arriving on the 10th. [1821] £1,500 † TO JOHN RICHARDSON 3. ALS to [John] Richardson, from Abbotsford, 21 March [1830]. ‘My dear Richardson, I have a long letter half written about your purchase but I have not time to finish it just now. I have just come to the painful resolution to put off my expedition to London but as I am induced to do so from necessity there is no help. I am exceptionally curious to learn what they prepare to do with the Court of Session. Can you get me a copy of the Bill - Sir Francis Freeling or Mr Croker would frank it ...’ 19 lines on 2pp, 8vo; integral blank with address: Fludyer Street Westminster. ¶A warm letter from Scott to his friend John Richardson, written around the time of Richardson’s purchase of the Kirklands estate in Roxburghshire, a transaction cata 210 text.indd 2 14/08/2014 17:01:52 SCOTT encouraged by Scott, and which was completed in 1830. Richardson, 1780-1864, was a Scottish-born solicitor, who spent most of his working life living in London, specialising in Scottish law in Parliament. He was related, on his mother’s side, to the Brougham family, and had a keen interest in the arts as well as many friends in literary society. Among these were George Crabbe, Joanna Baillie, Cockburn, Reynolds, and Thomas Campbell, whom he also represented professionally. In his younger days he harboured his own literary pretensions, but perhaps wisely pursued an alternative career; in a letter to Joanna Baillie, Scott noted that Richardson had ‘a pretty taste for poetry, which he has wisely kept in subjection to the occupation of drawing briefs and revising conveyances.’ (DNB). The references in the letter to the Court of Session may refer to changes in its structure that were taking place at this time, in particular the absorption of Admiralty and Commissary courts into the larger body. [1830] £1,450 † Collected Editions & Selections 4. The Novels of Sir Walter Scott, with all his introductions and notes. 5 vols. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell. Front. vol. I, engr. title & printed title (1847) all vols, fold. facs. vol. I, map vol. III. Continuous pagination in each volume, text in two columns; minor spotting. Contemp. half maroon calf, spines gilt in compartments, red leather labels; a little rubbed, spines unevenly faded. An attractive set. ¶Vol. I - Waverley, Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, Rob Roy and Old Mortality. Separate titlepages dated 1842. Vol. II - The Black Dwarf, Legend of Montrose, Heart of Mid-Lothian, Bride of Lammermoor, Ivanhoe and The Monastery. Separate titlepages dated 1843. Vol. III - The Abbot, Kenilworth, The Pirate, The Fortunes of Nigel and Peveril of the Peak. Separate titlepages dated 1844, except ‘Peveril’ (1845). Vol. IV - Quentin Durward, St. Ronan’s Well, Redgauntlet, The Betrothed, The Highland Widow, The Talisman, The Two Drovers, My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror, The Tapestried Chamber and Death of the Laird’s Jock. Separate titlepages dated 1845. Vol. V - Woodstock, The Fair Maid of Perth, Anne of Geierstein, Count Robert of Paris, The Surgeon’s Daughter, Castle Dangerous and a Glossary. Separate titlepage for Woodstock 1846, all others 1850, except for title page of The Surgeon’s Daughter. Castle Dangerous. Glossary (1851). 1843-47 £250 98 VOLUMES IN DARK GREEN MOROCCO 5. (Works.) 98 vols. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black. With a preface dated March 1834, the year this collection first appeared; containing “many pieces which were never until now collected, or printed with his name ... Mr. (J.M.W.) Turner has undertaken the pictorial embellishment of the series ...”. The Miscellaneous Prose Works. 28 vols. 1850-59. Engr. fronts. & titles, half titles vols. XII & XIII. WITH: The Poetical Works. 12 vols. 1851-57. Engr. fronts. & titles, plate vol. V, fold. facs. vol. VII. Vol. XII is a collection of Scott’s dramas. WITH: The Waverley Novels. 48 vols. 1852-58. Engr. fronts. & titles. With the ‘Advertisement’ dated 1829, and the ‘General Preface’ dated 1822 in volume I. WITH: LOCKHART, J.G. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 10 vols.