MISCELLANY - Walter SCOTT (1771-1832). Quentin Durward, Edinburgh, 1823, 3 vols., original boards. FIRST EDITION. With 13 other books. (16)

MISCELLANY - [Walter SCOTT (1771-1832)].  Quentin Durward. Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable, 1823. 3 volumes, 8vo (197 x 125mm). 4-pages of publisher's advertisements dated May 1832 at the front of vol. one, half titles (some spotting and staining). Original paper boards, spine labels (upper boards of vols. II and III detached, some staining). Provenance: Lord Pembroke (old signature on upper boards). FIRST EDITION. Todd and Bowden 167A; Worthington 15. With 13 other books, namely Alexandre Dumas' Les Trois Mousquetaires (Paris, "MM. J.-B. Fellens et L.-P. Dufour," 1846, plates, one plate lacking at p.304, contemporary half roan, rather worn, [the work was first published in 1844]), Hawser Martingale's Tales of the Ocean (Boston, 1848, illustrations, original cloth, reprint, including the tale "A Whale Adventure in the Pacific" which may have influenced Herman Melville's "Moby Dick", published three years later in 1851), Charles Foster's The One Primeval Language traced experimentally through Ancient Inscriptions ... Second Edition (London, 1852, folding tables, illustrations, original pictorial cloth gilt), Illustrated Life and Career of William Palmer, of Rugeley: containing Details of his Conduct as School-Boy, Medical-Student, Racing-Man, and Poisoner (London, 1856, illustrations, 2 folding plates, contemporary half roan, covers detached), Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe's The American Home: or, Principles of Domestic Science (New York, 1870, original cloth, reprint), Algernon Charles Swinburne's A Note on Charlotte Bronte (London, 1877, original cloth, later issue, with dedication leaf), Fun. Vol. VIII (London, [n.d. but c. 1879], folding plates, unbound), Robert Louis Stevenson's Father Damien. An Open Letter to the Reverend Doctor Hyde of Honolulu (London, 1890, original printed wrappers, first English trade edition), the same author's Prayers Written at Vailima (London, 1910, "illuminated" throughout, original paper boards gilt, rather worn), [Henry Pottinger Stephens and Ernest Wells'] The Scarlet City ... Written by "Pot" and "Swears" (London, 1899, original pictorial cloth), The Mazawattee Pocket Dictionary of the English Language (London, [c. 1908], 16mo, original wrappers), Rudyard Kipling's The Dead King (London, 1910, illustrations and decorations by William Heath Robinson, original  buckram) and a collection of late 19th/early 20th-century pamphlets ("The Atheist Shoemaker", "Mrs Besant's Theosophy", "Bible and Beer", "An Essay on Suicide", "Rome or Reason?", "Why am I an Agnostic?" [etc, etc]) bound together. The lot sold not subject to return. (16)