(SETS AND BINDINGS.) Scott, Sir Walter. Works.

FINE SET, WITH A LETTER BY SCOTT (SETS AND BINDINGS.) Scott, Sir Walter. Works. 55 volumes. Titles and half-titles printed in red and black, additional title in volume one with hand-colored vignette heightened in gilt, three frontispieces in each volume: one signed by the artist, another colored, and a third (different) photographic image from the life of Scott; all plates throughout in colored and uncolored state. 8vo, handsome red morocco with decorative gilt borders on covers, elaborate front doublure with owner's name against deep green morocco with gilt coat-of-arms; original subscriber's receipt for this and other sets laid in (same owner as binding). Boston and New York; Houghton Mifflin Co., 1912-13

a fine set. number 7 of 375 numbered copies. with a letter by scott tipped into volume one. 2 pages, folded 4to sheet, undated, mentioning a review of letters, a problem concerning books lent, and other current matters of concern. Another single-page note, penned with Mrs. Scott's compliments to receive a visitor at their Castle Street home, tipped in.