Books

167 x 101mm, half green morocco, panelled spines lettered & ruled in gilt, marbled sides, edges & endpapers, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece to Vol.I, engraved half-title in all volumes. The Library edition, first published in 1852, with illustrations 'engraved in the first style after paintings by the most eminent artists of the day'. Very good clean set.

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.