Books

First edition, 12mo, 3 volumes, pp. [4], 331, [1]; [4], 333, [1]; [4], 351, [1]; original gray paper-covered boards, printed paper labels on spines; spines rubbed, joints starting, some loss of paper at the joints (especially volume III), inkspot on two leaves, some light foxing mostly to fore-edges and ends of textblock, ownership signatures of E. Barker (crossed out) and P. J. Heisch on endpapers, good. P. J. Heisch was an early biographer of Lavater, having published in 1842 Memoirs of John Caspar Lavater with a brief memoir of his widow. Todd & Bowden 144Aa.

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.