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Kenilworth: A Romance. By The Author of “Waverley,” “Ivanhoe” &c. In Three Volumes.
by SCOTT, SIR WALTER:
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Edinburgh, Archibald Constable & Co. and John Ballantyne, 1821. Three volumes. Hardback, 7.5 x 4.5 inches. Quarter bound polished calf leather to spines and corners, marbled paper boards. Raised banding, gilt floral decoration and lettering to spines. Blue speckled page edges and plain endpapers. In very good conditions. Some minor handling to covers with some rubbing to edges and corners, some small surface chips to leather on corners. Endpapers clean, no penned inscriptions. Halftitle pages are darkened. Some occasional spots and handling marks to pages in all vols. Otherwise very good clean and tight copies. 3 vols: 320, 339 & 348pp.
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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- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Kenilworth: A Romance. By The Author of “Waverley,” “Ivanhoe” &c. In Three Volumes.
- Author
- SCOTT, SIR WALTER:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Edinburgh, Archibald Constable & Co. and John Ballantyne, 1821
- Keywords
- Literature SCOTT, SIR WALTER: Kenilworth, Romance, Three Volumes, Archibald Constable & Co., John Ballantyne, 1821, leather, fine binding,
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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