The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott. - Couverture souple

Scott, Sir Walter; Rossetti, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1241247625 ISBN 13 : 9781241247621

Editeur : British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011

Synopsis

Title: The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott.

Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions

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British Library
Scott, Walter; Rossetti, William;
1882].
xx. 620 p.; 8°.
11609.h.17.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Walter Scott Esq., writer to the signet, by A nne, daughter of Dr John Rutherford, professor of the practice of medicine, in the university of Edinburgh; and was born in that city, on the fifteenth of A ugust, 1771, being the third of a family consisting of six sons and one daughter. His paternal grandfather, Mr Robert Scott, fanner at Sandyknow, mthe vicinity of Smailholm Tower, in Roxburghshire was the son ot Mr Walter Scott, a younger son of Walter Scott ot Raeburn third son of Sir William Scott of Harden. The above-mentioned Walter lived at the time of the restoration, and embraced the tenets of quakerism but for this he endured no little persecution, both from Presbyterian and Episcopalian Walter, the second son of this gentleman, and father to the novelists grandfather, was so zealous a Jacobite that he made a vow never to shave his beard till the exiled house of Stuart should be restored, whence he acquired the name of Beardie. Dr John Rutherford, maternal grandfather to the Eubject of this memoir, and one of the pupils of Boerhaave, was the first professor of the practice of physic in the university of Edinburgh, to which office he was elected in 1727, and which he resigned in IT bb, in favour of the celebrated Dr John Gregory.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: British Library, Historical Print Editions
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1241247625
• ISBN 13: 9781241247621
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 668
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible