Sir Walter Scott - The Waverley Novels 1867 Copyright Edition 4 Vols

by Sir Walter Scott

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Sir Walter Scott – The Waverley Novels – 1867 Copyright Edition – 4 Volumes Sir Walter Scott – The Waverley Novels Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1867 A handsome complete four-volume set of Sir Walter Scott's Copyright Edition of The Waverley Novels, published in Edinburgh by Adam & Charles Black in 1867. The four volumes are uniformly bound in half leather with leather spines and corner tips, marbled paper-covered boards and gilt-decorated spines, with raised bands and contrasting black spine labels lettered in gilt. Condition: Near Fine. The bindings show some light rubbing and minor signs of age and handling, consistent with their age, but remain attractive and sound. The volumes are tightly bound and square, with clean, bright text internally. Overall a particularly well-preserved set. The four-volume Copyright Edition contains Scott's complete series of Waverley novels, including Waverley, Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, Rob Roy, Old Mortality, The Black Dwarf, The Bride of Lammermoor, The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Ivanhoe, The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth, The Pirate, The Fortunes of Nigel, Peveril of the Peak, Quentin Durward, St Ronan's Well, Redgauntlet, The Betrothed, The Talisman, Woodstock, The Fair Maid of Perth, Anne of Geierstein, Count Robert of Paris, The Surgeon's Daughter and Castle Dangerous, together with the associated shorter works. A particularly attractive Victorian set for the collector of Scott, Scottish literature, or nineteenth-century book bindin

• Publisher: Adam & Charles Black
• Year: 1867
• Condition: Very Good

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