SCOTT, Sir Walter.
Rokeby.
Rokeby.
Stock Code 119331
London, Groombridge and Sons, [c.1870].
prize-binding for Harrow School
A smart prize-binding for Harrow School or Sir Walter Scott's six-canto narrative poem, Rokeby. The poem is dedicated to John B. S. Morritt, whose estate, Rokeby Park, inspired the poem. With 60 pages of informative endnotes by Scott.This prize copy was presented to Charles Barclay from Frederic William Farrar (1831-1903), who was a master at Harrow for some years and later served as archdeacon of Westminster Abbey and dean of Canterbury.
8vo (160 x 101 mm); wood engraved frontispiece, spotting to preliminaries and final leaves, Harrow School bookplate dated 1870 to upper pastedown; calf prize binding from Harrow School featuring gilt school arms on upper cover and upper spine compartment, double gilt fillet on covers, contrasting red morroco lettering-piece on spine, marbled edges, rubbed corners, fading to top spine, otherwise very good; [9], 216pp.
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