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A handsome library set of the Waverley novels, in a handsome half calf binding. An uncommon Baudry's European Library edition of the works of Sir Walter Scott. With the bookplate of Thomas Gilbert to the front pastedowns. Contains: Anne of Geirestein Ivanhoe The Antiquary Kenilworth Quentin Durward The Talisman Woodstock The Betrothed Peveril of The Peak Highland Widow/Surgeon's Daughter St Ronan's Well The Monastery The Fortunes of Nigel Fair Maid of Perth The Abbot Redgauntlet The Pirate Black Dwarf/Old Mortality Heart of Mid-Lothian Waverley Guy Mannering Rob Roy Count Robert/Castle Dangerous Lammermoor Montrose The Waverley Novels are a long series by Sir Walter Scott. They were the most widely read works of their time and remained as popular for nearly a century. Sir Walter Scott was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet. He was one of the first to have contemporary readers in Europe, Australia and North America. In a half calf binding with marbled boards. Externally very smart with slight rubbing to the extremities and boards. Bookplate to front pastedowns of one 'Thomas Gilbert'. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with scattered spotting and marginal age toning, due to paper used. Very Good.

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.