Search Results: the waverly novels ivanhoe by sir walter scott

NY, The American News Company, Circa 1920, 1920. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12 mo., hardcover, green embossed decorative boards with gilt lerttering. No dj. Small water stain on bottom margin under frontis and back hinge cracked else VG. 593 pp. Setting is 12 C. England when Richard the Lion-Hearted reigned. Cedric the Saxon, his ward Rowena, his son Wilfred of Ivanhoe, Brian de Bois Guilbert, Isaac of York and others. A fascinating romance of English literature.

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. , 1854-1856.. Very good examples of this famous series. With double frontispieces. Some wearing to extremities, some volumes with chipped or missing labels. Interiors are clean and crisp.. Binding: Full contemporary straight-grain calf boards. Gilt fillet on upper and lower. Spine with 5 raised bands in 6 compartments, densely gilt. Series title in gilt on red label in 2, volume title in gilt on green in 3. Gilt rolls on board edges. Blind dentelles. Marbled paste-in and free endpapers. All edges marbled., Notes: The Waverley Novels are a long series of novels by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832). For nearly a century, they were among the most popular and widely read novels in Europe. Because Scott did not publicly acknowledge authorship until 1827, the series takes its name from Waverley, the first novel of the series released in 1814. The later books bore the words "by the author of Waverley" on their title pages.Sir Walter Scott (1771 – 1832) was a Scottish… Read More