8vo. In two volumes. [2], 237, [1]; [2], 202pp. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, contemporary book-labels of Jane Yates to both FEPs, with her inked ownership inscriptions to front blank fly-leaves, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FFEP of Vol. I, very occasional spotting.

The first separate edition in book form of three critical essays by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) on romance, chivalry, and drama respectively, that according to the publisher's notice are 'extracted from the Supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and cannot consequently be procured in England separately'.