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Edinburgh: Robert Cadell,, 1833-34. First Turner edition, illustrated with original work commissioned by Cadell and Scott. Although the edition was posthumously published, Scott was involved in the creation of the plates. Turner previously collaborated with the publisher in 1818 for Scott's Provincial Antiquities and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland, and he initially intended to base the 24 new illustrations on his old sketches for this earlier publication as well as on the work of other artists. Worried that this plan would not produce particularly exciting results, Cadell and Scott convinced Turner to take another tour around Scotland in order to gain fresh material. After a thorough and tiring two-month trip, Turner returned with enough sketches to not only illustrate this collected edition of Scott's verse but also an edition of his prose and Lockhart's Life of Scott, both subsequently published by Cadell. Author and publisher discussed the choice of frontispiece and vignettes at…