Kenilworth
by Scott, Sir Walter
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Touch of wear to extremities else very good condition./No dust jacket, as issued.
- Seller
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Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Jack Pub, c. 1918. Red cloth hardback in gilt Decorated Boards. . Touch of wear to extremities else very good condition./No dust jacket, as issued. . Color Illustrations by Henry J. Ford Bookplate. Book is as described - all defects and marks are noted. A very nice copy.
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
- Jeffrey Blake
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- JH1151866
- Title
- Kenilworth
- Author
- Scott, Sir Walter
- Format/Binding
- Red cloth hardback in gilt Decorated Boards.
- Book Condition
- Used - Touch of wear to extremities else very good condition.
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket, as issued.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jack Pub
- Date Published
- c. 1918
- Pages
- 567pp.
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About the Seller
Jeffrey Blake
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Willow Grove, Pennsylvania
About Jeffrey Blake
I have been selling books of merit since 1995. Fast, courteous, professional service. All orders shipped on the next business day.
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