London/New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd./E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 0460001353 . A 1974 reprint of a work first appearing in an Everyman's Library edition in 1906. Sir Walter Scott's famous historical novel is one in the Waverley series, and first published in 1821. Set in the 16th century, it is centered around the secret marriage of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and Amy Robsart. With an introduction by W. M. Parker. Entry 135 in Everyman's Library fiction series. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 4. Full green cloth-look paper covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling and interlocked "EL" at tail of spine. In white dust jacket with Peter Whiteman drawing of three main characters on front panel. --- An about-Near Fine copy: bright, tightly-bound and unmarked, though with prior owner's rubberstamping to front free endpaper. Excellent, bright jacket with very slight rubbing and chafing to edges, else undamaged and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xiv, 465 pages .

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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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Bookseller: Bluebird Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 87889
Title: Kenilworth (Everyman's Library #135)
Author: SCOTT, Sir Walter
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
ISBN 10: 0460001353
ISBN 13: 9780460001359
Publisher: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd./E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
Place of Publication: London/New York
Date Published: 1974
Keywords: 0460001353

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