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KENILWORTH
by SCOTT, Sir Walter
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine in a lightly worn, Near Fine slipcase with a dampstain at the top edge
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About This Item
[Burlington, VT]: Limited Editions Club, 1966. Hardcover. Fine in a lightly worn, Near Fine slipcase with a dampstain at the top edge. Clarke Hutton. Octavo (5-3/4" x 9-1/4") bound in full gold brocade cloth with gilt-lettered leather spine label. Introduction by David Daiches, 568 pages. Illustrated with paintings and line drawings by Clarke Hutton. Copy #887 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.
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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- Bookseller
- Charles Agvent
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019267
- Title
- KENILWORTH
- Author
- SCOTT, Sir Walter
- Illustrator
- Clarke Hutton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in a lightly worn, Near Fine slipcase with a dampstain at the top edge
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- [Burlington, VT]
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- Signed, Limited Editions, Walter Scott, Fine Press, 19th Century British Literature, Illustrated Books, Fine Bindings
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine Bindings;
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Charles Agvent
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About the Seller
Charles Agvent
Biblio member since 2003
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
About Charles Agvent
We carry a diverse and select stock with major specialties including Modern and 19th Century Literary First Editions, Signed Books & Autographs (especially Presidential and Literary), and Limited Editions Club books. We have been in business since 1987 and are proud to be members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB).
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