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Kenilworth (Easton leather)
by Scott, Sir Walter
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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League City, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1966. Special ed. . LeatherBound. Near Fine/No Jacket. 542 pages. Gilt title and decoration, all edges gilt, ribbon marker. Red leather covered boards with three raised bands. Moire endpapers. Twelve color plates by Clarke Hutton. Near Fine/No Jacket. No wear, but has owner bookplate on verso of FFEP. Item #: E2893.
Synopsis
Sir Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh in 1771. Educated for the law, he obtained the office of sheriff-depute of Selkirkshire in 1799 and in 1806 the office of clerk of session, a post whose duties he fulfilled for some twenty-five years. His lifelong interest in Scottish antiquity and the ballads which recorded Scottish history led him to try his hand at narrative poems of adventure and action. The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), Marmion (1808), and The Lady of the Lake (1810) made his reputation as one of the leading poets of his time. A novel, Waverley , which he had begun in 1805, was published anonymously in 1814. Subsequent novels appeared with the note “by the author of Waverley”; hence his novels often are called collectively “the Waverley novels.” Some of the most famous of these are Old Mortality (1816), Rob Roy (1817), Ivanhoe (1819), Kenilworth (1821), and Quentin Durward (1823). In recognition of his literary work Scott was made a baronet in 1819. During his last years he held various official positions and published biographies, editions of Swift and Dryden, tales, lyric poetry, and various studies of history and antiquity. He died in 1832.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Schroeder's Book Haven
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E2893
- Title
- Kenilworth (Easton leather)
- Author
- Scott, Sir Walter
- Format/Binding
- LeatherBound
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Special ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk
- Date Published
- 1966
- Pages
- 542
- Keywords
- Classics Literature Fine Bindings Leather Bindings
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About the Seller
Schroeder's Book Haven
Biblio member since 2003
League City, Texas
About Schroeder's Book Haven
We are an Open Shop located in the Historic District of League City, Texas, midway between Houston and Galveston. We have served Colleges and Libraries since 1967 and opened to the Public in 1992 in a renovated c.1911 house built by Judge J.S. Scott and his wife, Pearl. Our Store specialty is Texana, both new and out-of-print. We also have a good selection of General Stock, with emphasis in Western Americana, Art, Architecture and History. We provide complete ordering services for in-print titles and diligently search for the hard-to-find or out-of-print title you desire. Feel free to visit our shop Tues-Fri 10-6; Thurs Noon-8, Sat 10-4 Central Time. Closed Sunday & Monday.
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- Jacket
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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