(Scott, Sir Walter.). THE LIFE AND ANECDOTES OF THE BLACK DWARF, OR DAVID RITCHIE, COMMONLY CALLED "BOWED DAVIE" OF MANOR, PEEBLES-SHIRE, THE CELEBRATED ORIGINAL OF THE CHARACTER OF ELSHENDER, IN THE TALES OF MY LANDLORD; TOGETHER WITH PART OF A CURIOUS JOURNAL, FOUND IN HIS HUT AFTER HIS DECEASE; COMPRISING ALL THE MOST INTERESTING PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF THAT SINGULAR MISANTHROPE. WITH AN ELEGY ON HIS DEATH... TO WHICH IS ADDED, AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE TALE OF "THE BLACK DWARF.". Edinburgh: Printed and Sold by W. Chambers, Leith Walk ... , 1820. 12mo, pp. [i-iii] iv [7] 8-149 [150: blank], mid-nineteenth century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, black leather title label affixed to spine panel. First edition. Scott's "The Black Dwarf" was first published in TALES OF MY LANDLORD (1816). Barron (ed), Horror Literature 1-95. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 372. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 1-340. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992). Lacks the engraved portrait, marginal tear in leaf A[2], closed tear (with small tape repair) affecting text of leaf D[2], minor chipping to lower margins of signature M, text foxed and soiled, binding worn at edges, a good, sound copy. Scarce. (#51610)