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A twenty-five volume, complete set of the Victoria Edition of Sir Walter Scott's novels, in a beautiful leather binding. In twenty-five volumes, complete. With decorative two-colour titles to all volumes, and illustrated with plates to frontispiece to each volume In a fine binding by Bayntun, Bath with binder's stamp to verso of front free endpaper. The titles of the volumes are as follows: Old Mortality; Quentin Durward; Rob Roy; Woodstock or The Cavalier, A Tale of Sixteen-Hundred and Fifty-One; The Black Dwarf and A Legend of Montrose; Guy Mannering, or, The Astrologer; Waverley or 'Tis Sixty Years Since; The Bride of Lammermoor; The Heart of Midlothian; The Antiquary; Kenilworth; The Monastery; The Abbot, Being a Sequel to The Monastery; The Fortunes of Nigel; Redgauntlet, A Tale of the Eighteenth Century; The Pirate; The Maid of Perth Or Valentine's Day, Chronicles of the Canongate Second Series; Peveril of the Peak; Count Robert of Paris; The Betrothed, A Tale of the Crusaders and The Chronicles of the Canongate; Anne of Geierstein or, The Maiden of the Mist; Saint Ronan's Well; Ivanhoe, A Romance; The Talisman, A Tale of the Crusaders and The Chronicles of Canongate; and The Surgeon's Daughter and Castle Dangerous. Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (1771 - 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet, popular throughout much of the world during his time. Scott was the first English-language author to have a truly international career in his lifetime, with many contemporary readers in Europe, Australia, and North America. His novels and poetry are still read, and many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature. Famous titles include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Although Scott had attained celebrity through his poetry, he soon tried his hand at documenting his researches into the oral tradition of the Scottish Borders in prose fiction stories and novels at the time still considered aesthetically inferior to poetry as a mimetic vehicle for portraying historical events. With previous owner's bookplates to front pastedowns. Uniformly bound in fine half calf binding with cloth covered boards, bound by Bayntun. Externally, in excellent condition with only minor wear to extremities and slight fading to spines. Internally, firmly bound. Bright and generally clean throughout with only slight foxing and offsetting and marginal age toning to text block edges. Near Fine. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers SET60-D-1
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