353 pp. Illustrated with wood engravings, including frontispiece with tissue-guard. 6¾x4½, bound in period full red calf, decorative blind-stamped borders on front and rear covers, decorative gilt-ruling, spine tooled in gilt, gilt-lettered green morocco spine label, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; bound by Seton & Mackenzie (of Edinburgh); with fore-edge painting of "Loch Katrine."

Fore-edge view of a beautiful pastoral scene: a well-dressed man and woman walking their dog on a path beside Loch Katrine, Scotland, which is embedded in Sir Walter Scott lore. Today, the Loch Katrine Steamship "Sir Walter Scott" can still be visited and has sailed the waters of Loch Katrine since 1900. But prior, the story goes the very first steamer on Loch Katrine was sent to the bottom by the sailors who had been employed to row the previous craft.