The Waverley Novels (1877)
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The Waverley Novels (1877)
by Sir Walter Scott, Bart
9 x 6. In English. Published by Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1877. Author's Edition. Four Volumes. Complete. Tan half calf bindings with green cloth covered boards. Externally, generally smart with patches of light rubbing to the spines and some shelf wear to extremities. Spots and marks to front board of Volume I. Fading to the top of front board to Volume IV. Both hinges to Volume I & II and front hinge to Volume III are slightly strained but firm. Corners range from sharp to rather bumped, most only slightly. Raised bands, moderately worn, with gilt lettering and floral designs in compartments. Red and green morocco title labels. Marbled edges a shade less than bright. Pastedowns and end papers with light foxing, but no previous owner ship markings. Not ex-library. Illustrated, with a frontispiece and vignette title pages to all volumes with occasional foxing to fore-edges. Overall, a handsomely bound set of a widely popular. mid-modern period work, in very good condition. The volumes show no serious wear, and the text is quite smooth and clean. (The image of the author we included on our website is NOT in the book.)
Sir Walter Scott (1771 – 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, poet and historian. Famous titles include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Old Mortality, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor. Although primarily remembered for his extensive literary works and his political engagement, Scott was an advocate, judge and legal administrator by profession, and throughout his career combined his writing and editing work with his daily occupation as Clerk of Session and Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire. Scott gathered the disparate strands of contemporary novel-writing techniques into his own hands and harnessed them to his deep interest in Scottish history and his knowledge of antiquarian lore. His Waverley Novels are a long series of novels that were, for nearly a century, among the most popular and widely read novels in all of Europe. They are set in various places, to include Perthshire, Galloway, Angus, Yorkshire, Berkshire, Syria, Switzerland and Turkey.
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