The Waverley Novels

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1865-68. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 5". Various. A collection of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels. With a frontispiece and vignette title page to each volume. With several vignettes and full page illustrations throughout all volumes. With the stamp of European Royal, Marie Therese of Austria to the verso of the front endpaper to all volumes. Marie Therese was the second wife of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies. Her father was Archduke Charles of Teschen and her paternal grandfather was the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II. She was the Prinsess-Abbess of the Theresian Royal and Imperial Ladies Chapter of the Castle of Prague. Complete in forty-eight volumes. The Waverley Novels are a long series by Sir Walter Scott. They were the most widely read works of their time and remained as popular for nearly a century. This set contains all the Waverley novels such as The Black Dwarf, Rob Rob, The Abbot, The Pirate, Old Mortality and Woodstock. Sir Walter Scott was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet. He was one of the first to have contemporary readers in Europe, Australia and North America. In uniform full morocco bindings with gilt stamping to spines and blind stamping to boards. Externally, very smart with small patches of minor rubbing to extremities and to the head and tail of spines, and to the joints. Volumes 39, 40 and 48 are particularly rubbed to spine. Prior owner's stamp to the verso of front endpaper to all volumes, Marie Therese. Rear hinge to volume 25 is slightly strained but firm. Both hinges to volumes 10, 17 and 48 are slightly strained but firm. Front hinge to volume 48 is slightly strained but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with instances of the scattered spots throughout and a few handling marks. Very Good Indeed