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Author	Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.
Title	Rokeby : a poem / by Walter Scott.
Publication Info.	Edinburgh : Printed for James Ballantyne by John Ballantyne and co. ; London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813.

Location	Call No.	Status
Rare Books Medium	Z-M S431 R5	IN LIBRARY

Edition	3rd ed.
Description	413 p. ; 23 cm.
Note	Sheets of the 2d ed., 1st impression were used with a new title page for this 3d ed.
Local Note	NYSL copy: Gift of Christian Zabriskie. With Andrew Lang's bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper. Presentation copy, inscribed by Scott in Abbotsford to William Laidlow "with the author's kind respects", dated 21 April 1813.
Genre or Form	Presentation copies (Provenance) -- England -- 19th century.
	Bookplates (Provenance) -- England -- 19th century.
Added Author	Laidlaw, William, 1780-1845, former owner.
	Scott, Walter, 1771-1832, signer.
	Zabriskie, Christian A., donor.
	James Ballantyne and Co., printer.

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