IVANHOE; A ROMANCE. [Complete in 3 volumes] by Scott, Sir Walter - 1820

London: Archibald Constable and Co. & Hurst, Robinson, 1820. Book. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition, First Issue. 12mo. Complete in three volumes, vol. I: xxxiii, 298pp; vol. II: 327pp; vol. III: 371pp. Half leather bindings, gilt detail to spines, gilt on leather spine labels, bright. Cloth covered boards, some surface rubbing, edges and corners rounded. Binding firm. Contents good and tight, matching grey endpapers to all volumes, volume one with "First Edition" in ink to the top edge, half title not bound into volume one. A very good first edition set. [This is considered a first edition first state as defined by points in both Todd and Bowden and Worthington including Volume 1 pages 159-306 (sheets N-Y) are misnumbered 151-298, foremark on page [iii] is 9, the first word on p. iv, line 6, is "Peter;" p. v, line 12, the second and fourth words are "which," not the third word as noted in Worthington, but the formemark is 6; p. vi, line 14, the first word is "observed;" p. ix, line 1, there is no comma after "fought;" p. xii, line 5, there is no comma after "people;" p. xv, line 3, word six is "toilsome;" p. xvi, line 20, the first word is "ton;" there are no formemarks on pp. xvi, xix, or xxiv; p. xxviii has formemark 9; p. xxx has formemark 12; and p. xxix has a comma after the word "paste" in the first line, etc.].