[2, blank], half-title, frontispiece, title-page, colophon ('Printed at University press, Glasgow. MCMV. '), 7-507 numbered pages, [1], + 2 pages publisher's adverts at end (for Tennyson's 'Poems' and Burns' 'Cottars Saturday night' in similar Demi 128mo formats). Fine India paper. Ellen Terry Miniature Library. Top edges gilt. Original blue endpapers. No inscriptions. 35 x 50 mm. Original green lambskin; gilt thistle decoration and titling on spine; gilt titling and image of female on a small boat on front cover. Bondy,116. See Welsh, 6196 for Bryce and New York Frederick Stokes Co. edition. See OCLC, 291099305 for Bryce/Stokes edition. WorldCat locates 10 copies worldwide of the Bryce/Stokes edition but no copies of this Bryce/Frowde imprint. Sir Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake (1810) was a massive cultural phenomenon, popularizing the Scottish Highlands, especially Loch Katrine and the Trossachs, creating a tourism boom, blending historical figures such as King James V with romance, and establishing Scott as a literary giant.










