8vo. In two volumes. [6], 243, [1]; [4], 224pp. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, contemporary book-labels of Jane Yates to both FEPs, with her inked ownership inscriptions to front blank fly-leaves, recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FFEP of Vol. I, very occasional spotting.

A series of succinct memoirs by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) 'selected from various miscellaneous publications...now for the first time given to the public in a collected form'. The illustrious subjects of these portraits include, inter alia, Anna Seward, George III, Daniel Defoe, and Lord Byron.