THE MISCELLANEOUS PROSE WORKS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. In Six Volumes. (Vol. IV. ONLY!) Biographical Memoirs. Wells and Lilly, Boston, 1829.
 
Vol. IV Biographical Memoirs
 
Obscure still plain boards with paper over the spine title. The paper spine title all but chipped away, with moderate-heavy edge wear, slight warping to thin boards and corner creases. Sir Walter Scott was still alive (d. 1832) when this volume was published. Nice secure text block with large chips at front/rear endpapers and rubbing at front/rear pastedowns. About 8-1/4 x 4-3/4 with 301 pages. This is ONLY a single volume (VOL. IV. BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS) of a six-volume set. 
 
Private Library (bookplate) of GEORGE M. GAGE. No. 303 at front pastedown. George Manlius Gage, son of Dr. Leander Gage and Ann Brewer Sargent, was born in Waterford, Maine on Aug. 22, 1834. He married ELIZABETH S. WEBBER on Aug. 15, 1861, in North Bridgton, Maine. At that time he was a resident of Beverly, Mass., and she resided in Maine. He was the principal of the State Normal School, and afterward the same in Minnesota. In September 1872 he became superintendent of schools for St. Paul.