SCOTT, Walter.

£1,000 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since. First edition of the author's first novel, generally recognized as the first "historical novel", and the first in the eponymous series which soon became among the most popular and widely read novel series in 19th-century European literature. "At one blow Scott had established a new literary form... [He was] the creator of the historical novel" (PMM).Greville Worthington identifies "a number of unimportant variants and a number of definite misprints which may be used to identify the first edition". All these are present in this copy with correct setting on p. 79 (vol. 2), "m" present on p. 159 (vol. 3) and "t" missing on p. 253 (vol. 3).

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