WAVERLEY NOVELS, VOLUME I, WAVERLEY & GUY MANNERING

NEW YORK: COLLIER, 1880 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, SOME FADING FRONT AND SPINE. CIRCA 1880, NO DATE LISTED. BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. TIGHT AND CLEAN. Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since; is a historical novel by Walter Scott (17711832). Scott was already famous as a poet, and chose to publish it anonymously in 1814 as his first venture into prose fiction. It is often regarded as one of the first historical novels in the Western tradition. Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer is the second of the Waverley novels by Walter Scott, published anonymously in 1815. According to an introduction that Scott wrote in 1829, he had originally intended to write a story of the supernatural, but changed his mind soon after starting. The book was a huge success, the first edition selling out on the first day of publication. Edward Waverley, an English gentleman of honour, chooses an occupation in the army at the time just before the Jacobite uprising of 1745 on advice of his father. Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Waverley, Old Mortality, The Heart of Mid-Lothian and The Bride of Lammermoor, and the narrative poems The Lady of the Lake and Marmion. He had a major impact on European and American literature. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.