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Record Number: DRY0062

Related Work: Heart of Mid-Lothian, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Saddletree Laying Down the Law

Keyword(s): Books - Butler, Reuben - Law & Lawyers - Saddletree, Bartoline

Artist: William Brassey Hole

Engraver: James Davis Cooper

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 7 x 6.8

Date: 1893

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Dryburgh Edition], 25 vols (London & Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1892-94)

Position in Source Text: vol. 7 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1179.d

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Saddletree with a document in his hand expounding law to a weary-looking Butler in the latter’s home; shelves of books provide the background [Ch. 28]. Title/caption from List of Illustrations.

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