BIB_ID
131881
Accession number
MA 452
Creator
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Display Date
[1825-1826].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1894.
Description
1 v. (207 leaves), bound ; 27.8 cm
Notes
Preceded by a signed attestation "This, the Original Manuscript of Woodstock I received as a gift from Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford on 9th April 1831. Robert Cadell 1834."
Provenance
Given by Sir Walter Scott to Robert Cadell in 1831; his sale (London, Christie's, July 9, 1868) to Mr. Thorpe; Sir William Tite; his sale (London, Sotheby's, 1874, no. 2694); purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1894.
Summary
Being the autograph manuscript of Woodstock, written on the rectos and with corrections and additions on the versos of 207 leaves. Collated with the first edition (1826) and complete except for five pages of manuscript containing part of Vol. I. With an autograph title page ("Woodstocke") following the preface.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (29.7 cm)
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