Bells British Poets, 42 vols bound by James Scott

Item date: 1773
Grant Value: 2,625
Item cost: 10,500
Item date acquired: 1997
Item institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

One of only two multi-volume works known to have been bound by Scott, arguably the finest bookbinder ever to have worked in Scotland. Each volume is uniformly bound in Scotts early red morocco style, with the monogram tooled in gold on a green morocco oval onlay surrounded by an oval tool made up of 49 small shells

Item Provenance
Bound for an unidentified AM whose initials appear on the upper cover of all volumes, later in the possession of Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane