Books

A complete set of the Waverley Novels in a very attractive leather binding. Brown leather spines and corners. Marbled paper boards and endpapers. Spine labels in maroon and black, with gold lettering. Each volume measures 4.5 x 7 inches. ABout 400 pages per volume. Bindings are clean, complete, and very handsome. Previous bookseller's pencil note on the first blank page notes that this is the first collected edition, with a general preface (in volume 1) and separate introductions to each work. Printed 1829-1833. Scott's Waverley novels were published between 1814 and 1831. This complete set was begun before the final 3 novels were published, but contains those as well. Scott's series was enormously popular both in Europe and America. It has been reprinted countless times. This is the first complete uniform edition of all his works. Contains. Waverley, Guy Mannerling, Antiquary, Rob Roy, The Black Dwarf, Old Mortality, The Heart of Midlothian, The Bride of Lammermoor, A Legend of Montrose, Ivanhoe, The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth, The Pirate, The Fortunes of Nigel, Peveril, Quentin Durward, St. Ronan's Well, Redgauntlet, The Betrothed, The Talisman, Woodstock, The Highland Widow, The Two Drovers, My Aunt Margaret's Mirror, The Tapestried Chamber, The Laird's Jock, The Fair Maid of Perth, Anne of Geierstein, Count Robert of Paris, Castle Dangerous, and The Surgeon's Daughter. Please feel free to email to request photos. Shipping will cost more than the ABE default setting, since this is a large 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.