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Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1852-54. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Finely bound in contemporary calf, double fillet panel to boards, spines with rich gilt ornamentation between raised bands, titles in gilt to red and green Morocco spine labels. Board edges elaborately tooled in gilt, text block edges and endpapers marbled. Numerous engraved illustrations. Each volume bears the bookplate of Rev. Charles Upwood Manning. In near fine condition, with minimal external wear, very light spotting to endpapers, otherwise all pages fresh and bright, and bindings tight and sound. The only significant defects are some white spots to the upper board of Vol. 8, and some erosion of leather at the foot of Vol. 14 Category: Fiction; Add. Inventory No: 240218NAZDMB301. .

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.