Bride of Lammermoor & Heart of Mid-Lothian Scott c1880s Leather Illustrated
 
The Bride of Lammermoor & Heart of Mid-Lothian
By Sir Walter Scott – Edited by Rev. P. Hately Waddell
W. P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell / Morrison & Gibb, Edinburgh (late-Victorian)
 
 
Bibliographic Details
 
Full title: The Bride of Lammermoor & The Heart of Mid-Lothian (two novels bound together).
Author: Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832).
Editor: Rev. P. Hately Waddell (1817–1891) – notes, glossary, biographical and critical notes.
Publisher / Printer: W. P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell; printed by Morrison & Gibb Ltd., Edinburgh.
Date / Edition: Undated; publisher active 1883–1916; editor deceased 1891, and so circa 1880s
Binding & Format: Half-leather over spine, corners and board edges; marbled paper boards; marbled page edges; marbled pastedowns and endpapers. No dust jacket.
Illustrations: Engraved frontispieces (with tissue guards) and illustrated title pages for each novel.
Pagination: Bride of Lammermoor – 256 pp.; Heart of Mid-Lothian – 448 pp. All pages present.
Size & Weight: Approx. 19 × 13 × 4.1 cm; 761 g.
 
Exterior Condition
 
Attractive late-Victorian half-leather binding with gilt lettering on black spine panels and gilt tooling.
Marbled boards are bright and decorative. Leather remains supple and robust.
Light overall wear consistent with age: rubbing to corners and board edges, small surface marks and fading in places. Gilt remains clear.
 
Interior Condition
 
Pages lightly tanned with light foxing on endpapers and occasional leaves; otherwise pages are clean and neat, and uncreased.
A very small hole near the inner margin (gutter) on pages 211–216 of Bride of Lammermoor from the binding stitch (does not affect readable text).
A very light crack in the gutter to the side of page 256 (Bride of Lammermoor), but gatherings remain secure.
A couple of page edges are roughly cut, not affecting text.
No loose signatures and no missing pages. All text and plate leaves present.
Small binder’s sticker: “Bound by A. Brown & Sons, Savile Street, Hull.” No pen or pencil inscriptions.
 
Features & Collectibility
 
Part of a matched late-Victorian Waverley Novels uniform series – desirable for collectors of Scott and decorative bindings.
Editor Waddell’s notes and centenary apparatus add scholarly value. Rev. P. Hately Waddell’s scholarly annotations were used in Nimmo’s luxury editions before his death in 1891.
Decorative attributes: gilt spine, marbled boards and edges, illustrated title pages and protected frontispieces.