logoIllustrating Scott

Record Number: ABB0105

Related Work: Surgeon's Daughter, The

Illustration Title/Caption: Selkirk

Keyword(s): Bridges - Towns & Cities

Artist: Peter Paton

Engraver: William Miller

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8.8 x 12.8

Date: 1846

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Abbotsford edition] (Edinburgh: Cadell, 1842-47)

Position in Source Text: vol. 10, facing p. 475

Location of Copy: ABD, WS E13, vol. 10

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts the town of Selkirk and surrounding countryside. List of Illustrations at front explains 'Sir Walter Scott was Sheriff of the county of this name; and in the Town resided the prototype of Mr Middlemas, of "The Surgeon's Daughter"'. Also appears in the Library Edition of the Waverley Novels as vol. 25 frontispiece: see #LIB0049.

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