Kenilworth
by Sir Walter Scott
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Item Price
NZ$17.04NZ$13.63
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About This Item
London & Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press Book. Illus. by A Bend in the River. Very Good. Burgundy Leather. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Undated, Illustrated Pocket Classics. 498pp illustrated with 6 full page monochrome plates. Gilt lettering and design to spine, top edges gilt and burgundy endpapers. Bumping and rubbing to corners and spine, with small loss to top of backstrip. Dedication to verso of frontis, otherwise very good 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
- Washburn Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003455
- Title
- Kenilworth
- Author
- Sir Walter Scott
- Illustrator
- A Bend in the River
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Collins Clear-Type Press
- Place of Publication
- London & Glasgow
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾" - 6&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Collectable Fiction;
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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.
- 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...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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