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SCOTT, WALTER. 1771-1832. Autograph Manuscript, being two leaves of the original manuscript of Kenilworth including the end of Chapter III and beginning of Chapter IV (pp 14-15 of the manuscript),
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SCOTT, WALTER. 1771-1832.
Autograph Manuscript, being two leaves of the original manuscript of Kenilworth including the end of Chapter III and beginning of Chapter IV (pp 14-15 of the manuscript), 2 pp, folio, n.p., [1820], light soiling at folds, with single manuscript addition to verso of each leaf, with portrait of Scott by Wivell, after Picart, facing manuscript title page, with mounted manuscript note from Edmond Logan, "Part of the original ms of Kenilworth, given to me Edmond Logan by John Ballantine[sic]," the manuscript leaves inserted on stubs, the volume filled out with blanks. Bound in burgundy crushed morocco by Riviere, ruled in gilt, spine decorated.
Provenance: Edmond Logan (1798-1875), from John Ballantyne (1774–1821, note). Sale Christie's, July 20, 1983.
VERY RARE PORTION OF THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT OF "KENILWORTH," one of a very small number of leaves from Kenilworth not in the British Library. One of the most successful of all of Scott's Waverley novels, Kenilworth was published at Christmastime 1820, and was one of the final projects in which John Ballantyne, his longtime friend and publisher, had a hand. Ballantyne must have given the present portion to Logan early in 1821, as his health gave out and he passed away on June 16, 1821.
Despite the success of Kenilworth and others, Scott's publisher Archibald Constable faced severe financial distress beginning in 1825, and, following his death in 1827, many assets were sold off, including the Scott manuscripts in 1831. According to the New York Times, at the time of the sale only six of the sold manuscripts were complete. Kenilworth was not complete, and sold for £17, and again in 1847 for £16, before passing to the British Library in 1855. According to J.H. Alexander, "The greater part of Scott's original manuscript is preserved in the British Library, London, with smaller portions in several other collections. Five of the leaves are missing" (Kenilworth, Penguin Classics, 1999, p xiv).
The text begins with Foster's meeting of Lambourne at the end of chapter three: "you are a gambler now, and live by the counting of chances - Compute me the odds that I do not on this instant throw you out of that window into the ditch there," and ends with Foster's exhortation to Lambourne to reform halfway through chapter four (pp 66-77 in the first edition of the text), these leaves are in Scott's usual final manuscript form, with few corrections or notations and ready to be sent to the compositor.
Provenance: Edmond Logan (1798-1875), from John Ballantyne (1774–1821, note). Sale Christie's, July 20, 1983.
VERY RARE PORTION OF THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT OF "KENILWORTH," one of a very small number of leaves from Kenilworth not in the British Library. One of the most successful of all of Scott's Waverley novels, Kenilworth was published at Christmastime 1820, and was one of the final projects in which John Ballantyne, his longtime friend and publisher, had a hand. Ballantyne must have given the present portion to Logan early in 1821, as his health gave out and he passed away on June 16, 1821.
Despite the success of Kenilworth and others, Scott's publisher Archibald Constable faced severe financial distress beginning in 1825, and, following his death in 1827, many assets were sold off, including the Scott manuscripts in 1831. According to the New York Times, at the time of the sale only six of the sold manuscripts were complete. Kenilworth was not complete, and sold for £17, and again in 1847 for £16, before passing to the British Library in 1855. According to J.H. Alexander, "The greater part of Scott's original manuscript is preserved in the British Library, London, with smaller portions in several other collections. Five of the leaves are missing" (Kenilworth, Penguin Classics, 1999, p xiv).
The text begins with Foster's meeting of Lambourne at the end of chapter three: "you are a gambler now, and live by the counting of chances - Compute me the odds that I do not on this instant throw you out of that window into the ditch there," and ends with Foster's exhortation to Lambourne to reform halfway through chapter four (pp 66-77 in the first edition of the text), these leaves are in Scott's usual final manuscript form, with few corrections or notations and ready to be sent to the compositor.