The vision of Don Roderick; a poem /
Scott, Walter,1771-1832.
Thayer, Harriet,-1860,former owner.StEdNL: RB.m.695
Edinburgh : printed by James Ballantyne and Co., for John Ballantyne and Co. Hanover Street, Edinburgh; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London,
1811.
First impression of the first edition for public sale.
In two parts: main text of poem up to p. 69 and pp. 68-122 are notes on the poem.
"Because of the belated insertion of a half sheet (H) there is a repetition of numbered pages 68-69, resulting in the misnumbering of all subsequent pages" (Todd & Bowden).
Edition exists in two states: (1) p. 3, line 2 beginning 'May swell'; (2) p. 3, line 2 beginning 'May rise'.
With half title and final advertisement leaf.
Todd, W.B. & Bowden, A. Sir Walter Scott,
Provenance: Portrait in pencil pasted onto a front free endpaper with initials E.B. at foot (Edward Berens), it is highly likely that this drawing is a portrait (or later copy of a portrait) of Walter Scott made by Berens in 1803, in Oxford, which would make it the earliest surviving image of Scott as a young man; MS inscription on half title: Harriet Thayer September 27. 1812 (Harriet Thayer was the youngest daughter of Edward Lovenden of Buscot Park, Berkshire; she later married Baron Paul-Adolphe Thiébault).
Scotland Edinburgh.