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London: Adam and Charles Black, 1865-68. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 5". Various. A collection of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels. With a frontispiece and vignette title page to each volume. With several vignettes and full page illustrations throughout all volumes. With the stamp of European Royal, Marie Therese of Austria to the verso of the front endpaper to all volumes. Marie Therese was the second wife of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies. Her father was Archduke Charles of Teschen and her paternal grandfather was the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II. She was the Prinsess-Abbess of the Theresian Royal and Imperial Ladies Chapter of the Castle of Prague. Complete in forty-eight volumes. 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. This set contains all the Waverley novels such as The Black Dwarf, Rob Rob, The Abbot, The Pirate, Old Mortality and…

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.