1865 The Novels of Sir Walter Scott

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding

Illustrated, with an engraved frontispiece and engraved title page to every volume. In addition to this there are numerous in-text illustrations. Title pages are red and black. The introduction states 'This edition of the Waverley Novels 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. Sir Walter Scott's novels were the most widely read works of their time and remained as popular for nearly a century. Comprising of all of Sir Walter Scott's novels, including ' 'Waverley', 'Guy Mannering', 'The Antiquary', 'The Black Dwarf' and 'Legend of Montrose', 'Old Mortality', 'Rob Roy', 'The Heart of Mid-Lothian', 'The Bride of Lammermoor', 'Ivanhoe', 'The Monastery', 'The Abbot', 'Kenilworth', 'The Pirate', 'The Fortunes of Nigel', 'Peveril of the Peak', 'Quentin Durward', 'St. Ronan's Well', 'Redgauntlet', 'The Betrothed' and 'The Highland Widow', 'The Talisman' and 'Chronicle of the Canongate', 'Woodstock', 'The Fair Maid of Perth', 'Anne of Geierstein', 'Count Robert of Paris', and 'The Surgeon's Daughter' and 'Castle Dangerous'. A beautiful set of the novels of this esteemed author.