The Fair Maid of Perth or Saint Valentine`s Day by Scott, Sir Walter, Bart

Adam & charles black, 1887. Hardcover. Very Good. 1887. No edition remarks. 480 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Stated. 474 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages. Notable tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners. Notable sunning to spine, with staining and marking to boards.

New York: John B. Alden, Publisher, 1883 Ex-Library. Very Good. Hardcover. Caxton Edition. Gilt decorated, blind-stamped dark brown binding has minor wear only. This Caxton Edition of Scott's "Waverley Novels" is nicely illustrated. This volume contains two of the novels..

Boston: Brainard Book. Good. Three-Quarter Leather. Edition De Luxe. Moderate wear including lacking section of spine strip; an adequate readable copy..

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1904. Later. Hardcover (Full Leather). Good Plus. 16mo, Black leather boards with gilt letters. Black endpapers. The rear hinge is half torn but still tight to the spine. Previous owner's signature on the second free page. New Century Library Vol. XXII. 578 pages. 01

London: Hawarden Press. 1894. good+. Hardcover. Chronicles of the Canongate - First Series. 2 vols in 1; Edition de Luxe Limited #445 of 500numbered copies; interior clean + binding solid; etching frontis with tissue guard + 4 b/w glossy plates; laid paper, many pp unopened; light moisture stain to top corner of some pp; top edge gilt, fore edge uncut; light wear to edges of dark green cloth cover with gilt lettering + decor on spine .

Boston: Boston Publishing Co, 1886. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Bound together in a decorative red cloth cover. Text clean. Pages intact with some age toning. Some marks and writing to blank end pages. Covers intact but aged and worn, notably edgewear and corner bumps/bends. Other Waverly Novels available; discount possible on multiple items.

Paperback / softback. New.

Adam And Charles Black, 1913. Book. Good+. Hardcover. No jacket. Spine faded. 467pp. Colour frontispiece..

The Fair Maid of Perth, or St. Valentine's Day was first published in 1828. It was inspired by the strange, but historically true, story of the Battle of the North Inch. It is set in Perth around 1400.
The Battle of the North Inch, or the Battle of the Clans, was a staged battle between the Chattan Confederation and the 'Clan Kay' in September 1396. Thirty men were selected to represent each side in front of spectators that included King Robert III of Scotland and his court, on what is now the North Inch Park in Perth.
The Chattan Confederation killed all but one opponent, at a cost of 19 of their own men. It is not clear whom they were fighting: it may have been their traditional enemies Clan Cameron or it may have been Clan Davidson, in an internal dispute for precedence in the Chattan line of battle in future campaigns against the Camerons.
Provenance
The inside front cover of this book bears the pre-printed book plate of Robert Treat Platt, author of Oregon and Its Share in the Civil War (1903).… Read More