Rob Roy. Illustrated by June Carey. Foreword by Diana Gabaldon. 750 COPIES WERE PRINTED
by SCOTT Sir Walter
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Folio Society,, 2021. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 9 coloured plates (one double-page); full petrol blue goatskin, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and blue, gilt top, blue endpapers, ribbon marker, a near fine copy in publisher's hand-crafted cloth slip-case with mounted coloured illustration (not repeated from text) framed in gilt. EDITION LIMITED TO 750 COPIES SIGNED BY ARTIST AND INTRODUCER (THIS COPY NO. 116). Published to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the author's birth.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45104
- Title
- Rob Roy. Illustrated by June Carey. Foreword by Diana Gabaldon. 750 COPIES WERE PRINTED
- Author
- SCOTT Sir Walter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Folio Society,
- Date Published
- 2021
- Keywords
- folio society, scott, walter scott, rob roy, june carey, waverley novels, historical fiction, historical novels
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Island Books
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- Goatskin
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- First Edition
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