KENILWORTH
by SIR WALTER SCOTT
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Only/No Jacket
- Seller
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Havant, Hampshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: WARD LOCK AND BOWDEN LIMITED. REPRINT . Hardcover. Good Only/No Jacket. Attractive pictorial boards, with some rubbing and wear to extremities, joints starting and webbing showing. Nevertheless, bright and clean boards, with mellowed pages throughout.
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
- Tobo Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003891
- Title
- KENILWORTH
- Author
- SIR WALTER SCOTT
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Only
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- REPRINT
- Publisher
- WARD LOCK AND BOWDEN LIMITED
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Pages
- -1
- Keywords
- Non-Classifiable
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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