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Old Mortality
by Sir Walter Scott
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible - Good/Good
- Seller
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Argillite, Kentucky, United States
Item Price
NZ$2,486.85NZ$2,238.16
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co, 1935. 1st edition thus. Hardcover_cloth. Collectible - Good/Good. 5"x7.5"x1.25". 627 pgs. x-Library w/graphics. Green cloth boards. Gilt letters on spine. Frontispiece: Edith on the Battlements - Painted by R. Herman, R.S.A. Orange "D" on title page in crayon. Library embossed stamp on title page. Envelope removed from last fly paper causing partial removal of page with glue stains. Ghost stickers. Dedication to "The King's Most Gracious Majesty" 1829. Spine straight, binding tight. Pages slight toning. 10 B&W illustrations. Introductory Essay and Notes by Andrew Lang. This Edition of the Waverley Novels, The Border Edition, is Dedicated b the Publisher to: The Hon. Mrs. Maxwell Scott of Abbotsford... Tales of My Landlord Collected and Reported by Jedediah Cleishbotham. First Series. The Black Dwarf. Intro by Jedediah Cleishbotham, Schoomaster and Parish-Clerk of Gandercleugh. Publisher's dedication page. Quote from Don Quixote Parte I, Capitulo 32, Jarvis's Translation. Editor's translation.
Ten illustrations accounted for VF: Frontispiece; The Graveyared - J. MacWhirter, A.R.A; Tillietudlem Castle - D.Y. Cameron; Claverhouse - Lockhart Bogle; The Duel - Alfred Hartley; Jenny Dennison by M.L. Gow; Bothwell Bridge by Sam Bough, R.S.A.; Morton Waiting Death by M.L. Gow; Edith and the Apparition by M.L. Gow; At the Black Linn by M.L. Gow. Intro to Tales of My Landlord. Intro to Old Mortality.
Ten illustrations accounted for VF: Frontispiece; The Graveyared - J. MacWhirter, A.R.A; Tillietudlem Castle - D.Y. Cameron; Claverhouse - Lockhart Bogle; The Duel - Alfred Hartley; Jenny Dennison by M.L. Gow; Bothwell Bridge by Sam Bough, R.S.A.; Morton Waiting Death by M.L. Gow; Edith and the Apparition by M.L. Gow; At the Black Linn by M.L. Gow. Intro to Tales of My Landlord. Intro to Old Mortality.
Synopsis
Old Mortality is a novel by Sir Walter Scott set in the period 1679-89 in south west Scotland. It forms, along with The Black Dwarf, the 1st series of Scott's Tales of My Landlord. The two novels were published together in 1816. Old Mortality is considered one of Scott's best novels. It was originally titled The Tale of Old Mortality, but is generally shortened in most references.
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- Bookseller
- Blacks Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8343
- Title
- Old Mortality
- Author
- Sir Walter Scott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover_cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1935
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