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Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1865. 48 volumes, complete and extended. An early printing of the complete collection, and a set with fine provenance, having belonged to Henry Lee of Boston. With engraved frontispiece and vignette title page in each volume and a profusion of engravings throughout the text. It contains, with a few exceptions, all the woodcuts that appeared in the Abbotsford Edition, besides the steel plates belonging to the original edition in forty-eight volumes as here. Sir Walter Scott took great pleasure in forming a museum at Abbotsford of the antiquities which illustrated the historical events and personages recorded in his writings. Small 8vo, contemporary three-quarter dark-green crushed morocco over marbled paper covered boards, the spines with raised bands gilt ruled and stopped, the compartments richly gilt with elaborate tooling filling the panels, two compartments lettered in gilt, marbled edges, marbled end-leaves A handsome set in pleasing…

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.