Frontispiece to: The Spirit of the Public
Journals for the Year M.DCCC.XXV (London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper,
1826)
Woolnoth's engraving is after a drawing
by Geddes made from his own 1818 portrait of Scott, or possibly
after an earlier engraving by F.C. Lewis. The ornamental frieze
by Hawkesworth features scenes from Scott's poems, some based
on illustrations by Richard Westall. Scott had not yet publicly
acknowledged authorship of the Waverley Novels (he would do so
in 1827).
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