PROVINCIAL ANTIQUITIES OF SCOTLAND. BY SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. ROBERT CADELL, EDINBURGH; WHITTAKER AND CO., LONDON. ADVERTISEMENT. [THIS Volume consists of an " ESSAY ON BORDER ANTIQUITIES," which formed the Introduction to a work, in two vols. 4to, published in 1814, under the title of " Border Antiquities of England and Scotland, comprising specimens of Architecture, Sculpture, &c. ;”—and of " ESSAYS ILLUSTRATIVE OF PAINTINGS OF SCOTTISH SCENERY," first printed by Sir Walter Scott in the elegant Collection, entitled "Provincial Antiquities and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland," 2 vols. 4to, 1825, 1826. The pictures which suggested these Essays were presented to Sir Walter Scott by the publishers of the work, and form the decoration of a small drawingroom at Abbotsford.] |