DRYDEN, John. Works. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, by Sir Walter Scott. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1821. 18 volumes, 8° (210 x 128mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Dryden in vol. one, folding engraved plate in vol. VI (occasional spotting, clean tear to folding plate).

DRYDEN, John. Works. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, by Sir Walter Scott. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1821. 18 volumes, 8° (210 x 128mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Dryden in vol. one, folding engraved plate in vol. VI (occasional spotting, clean tear to folding plate).
Contemporary half calf, elaborately gilt spines (few joints splitting, vol VI with volume number rubbed on spine). Provenance: Sidney Davidson.