Domestic Manners and Private Life of Sir Walter Scott

First published in 1834, this is James Hogg's memoir of his long acquaintance with Walter Scott. Hogg recounts meetings in Edinburgh and the Borders, visits to Abbotsford, Scott's talk, hospitality, and way of working, and the difference between the public baronet and the companionable man. He writes as a fellow poet and farmer, mixing admiration with stubborn self-assertion and stories in which he himself figures. The later pages touch Scott's financial ruin and decline. The book is a personal reminiscence, not a formal Life, and it records conversation and habit more than the plots of the Waverley novels.

Quarter bound in brown buckram with Rackenmarmor Swedish marbled paper boards, brown buckram cover-label. No spine title. Pale yellow endleaves. Issued with no slipcase, but transparent plastic dust-jacket.