Books

Fronts & engr. titles, additional printed titles, facsim., plates. Handsomely bound in contemp. full green morocco, decorative gilt borders & dentelles, spines lettered & gilt in compartments; spines sl. faded, sl. rubbing to extremities. a.e.g. An attractive set. The Library edition, first published in 1852, with illustrations 'engraved in the first style after paintings by the most eminent artists of the day'.

The novel 'Waverley' by Walter Scott is regarded as the first historical novel in the English language, blending history with fiction to portray the Jacobite uprising of 1745.