The Antiquary
by Scott, Walter
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Dana Estes and Company, 1900. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good+ ; No jacket. Circa 1900 Dana Estes and Company, copyright 1893 Estes and Lauriat. Two volumes in one. Standard Edition, limited to 1000 copies. This is copy 631. Introductory essay and notes by Andrew Lang. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has red cloth-covered boards with paper spine label. Tissued frontispiece and black and white plates. Top edges gilt. Deckle fore edges. Many bottom page edges unopened (uncut). Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends lightly bumped. Spine sunned; label a little darkened. Covers have light edge wear and surface rubbing. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. Separate pagination for the two books comprising this volume: 315 + 325 pages. No dust jacket. Limitation page states: "The Standard Edition of the Novels and Poems of Sir Walter Scott. Limited to one thousand numbered and registered sets, of which this is No. 631" (631 is hand stamped in red ink). Spine label has "Waverley Novels" at head of title. See our listings for other volumes in this set. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
Synopsis
Sir Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh in 1771. Educated for the law, he obtained the office of sheriff-depute of Selkirkshire in 1799 and in 1806 the office of clerk of session, a post whose duties he fulfilled for some twenty-five years. His lifelong interest in Scottish antiquity and the ballads which recorded Scottish history led him to try his hand at narrative poems of adventure and action. The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), Marmion (1808), and The Lady of the Lake (1810) made his reputation as one of the leading poets of his time. A novel, Waverley , which he had begun in 1805, was published anonymously in 1814. Subsequent novels appeared with the note “by the author of Waverley”; hence his novels often are called collectively “the Waverley novels.” Some of the most famous of these are Old Mortality (1816), Rob Roy (1817), Ivanhoe (1819), Kenilworth (1821), and Quentin Durward (1823). In recognition of his literary work Scott was made a baronet in 1819. During his last years he held various official positions and published biographies, editions of Swift and Dryden, tales, lyric poetry, and various studies of history and antiquity. He died in 1832.
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Details
- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7086
- Title
- The Antiquary
- Author
- Scott, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Dana Estes and Company
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- Waverley Novels,Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Waverley Novels;
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- Spine Label
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- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Gilt
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- Good+
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
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- Jacket
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