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SCOTT WALTER: (1771-1832)
SCOTT WALTER: (1771-1832) Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Ink signature ( ‘Walter Scott’) on a slim oblong 12mo piece, evidently neatly clipped from the conclusion of a letter, and with the place and date, Edinburgh, 17 th January 1829, in Scott’s hand. Lightly laid down to a 4to page immediately beneath a fragment of a similar size (also neatly laid down) bearing two lines of holograph text by Scott, possibly excised from the same letter, in part, ‘gentleman of good moral conduct and who possesses the manners…..’ The verso of the sheet is annotated and signed by the bookseller William Brown of Edinburgh and also bears his company’s oval stamp. Together with a contemporary silhouette of Scott on a small card. G, 2
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