THE HEART OF THE MID-LOTHIAN In Two Volumes Vol. I & II Edition De Luxe by Scott, Sir Walter Bart. (With introductiory Essay; Andrew, Notes By - 1893

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1823. Hardcover. Good. . Volume 10, The Heart of Mid-Lothian, ONLY. Half-leather cover with marbled boards shows minor wear and rubbing, with raised bands and gilt on the spine. Armorial bookplate of Sir Edmund Saunderson Prideaux, 9th (and final) Baronet at Netherton Hall on the front pastedown. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.

Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz. Very Good. 1858. Hardcover. Tauchnitz Collection of British Authors; 372 pages; Bound in quarter red calf with red cloth covered boards, leather rubbed at extremities, contents clean and tight. Copyright Edition. Todd and Bowden Nos. 451-452b. The Heart of Midlothian is the seventh of Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley Novels. It was originally published in four volumes on 25 July 1818, under the title of Tales of My Landlord, 2nd series, and the author was given as "Jedediah Cleishbotham, Schoolmaster and Parish-clerk of Gandercleugh". The Heart of Midlothian is often regarded as Scott's finest novel. Much of the dialogue is in Lowland Scots. .

New York: C. S. Van Winkle, 1818. Hardcover. Good. Vol. I & 2 only of four, the second volume also having a title page and separate pagination. Old brown calf, good copy, rather rubbed and used but sturdily bound, the contents toned and slightly foxed. Entirely comprised of the first two volumes of "The Heart of Mid-Lothian.

Leipzig.: Bernhard Tauchnitz., 1904. 322pp, 332pp. 32pp publisher's catalogue at rear dated 1903. Collection of British Authors Tauchnitz Edition. . Copyright Edition.. Paperback.. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Paperback / softback. New.

2 volumes, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1818, 12mo. 363pp., & Archibald Constable, Edinburgh, 1818, 322pp., 4-1/2Óx7Ó, matching bindings with same ownerÕs name at top of title-page, dated 1819. ornate green 1/2 leather, gilt spines marbled boards, VG $

Estes and Lauriat. 1893. hardback. Good. Lght shelf wear on the covers and spine. Bottom edges of the covers have some wear and the bottom edges of the pages have some bumping. Three of the 4 cover hinges show cracking but are holding nicely. The original green canvas dust jackets have wear along their edges , minor scraping., vol. II jacket has a faint moisture stain on the back.. 1893 2 Volume hardback set, the Illustrated Holiday Edition, with lovely gold stamped ivory and green boards and spine, the green matching the dust jacket fabric.

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates / Caxton Press of Sherman & Co, 1885. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 1880s edition, 22 of 23 volumes (lacks Guy Mannering). Spines slightly faded, corners lightly rubbed, edges lightly soiled, ink name and date on front flyleaf of each volume. 1885 Half-Leather. Dark brown cloth, gilt titles and rules, brown endpapers. Engraved frontispieces. Includes advertisement and general preface to the Abbotsford edition, introduction to the Boston Sterling edition, and preface to the third edition. Titles include: Waverley or 'Tis Sixty Years Since; The Antiquary; Black Dwarf / Old Mortality; Rob Roy; Heart of Mid-Lothian [Midlothian]; Bride of Lammermoor / A Legend of Montrose; Ivanhoe; The Monastery; The Abbot: Being a Sequel to The Monastery; Kenilworth; The Pirate; The Fortunes of Nigel; Peveril of the Peak; Quentin Durward; St. Ronan's Well; Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century; The Betrothed: A Tale of the Crusaders / The Talisman: A Tale of the… Read More

EDINBURGH: ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK, 1877. Hardcover. Good to Very Good/No Jacket. WAVERLEY NOVELS 48 VOLS COMPLETE by SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART pub by ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK; 1877; EDINBURGH; CLOTH BINDINGS; GOOD TO VERY GOOD 48 volume complete illustrated set 1877 - 1879. This is an unusual set, in the original purple / red boards with the publisher's original white printed paper labels to the spine. It's not common to see a complete set in the original format like this, since most copies were rebound with the original bindings discarded. There is some rubbing and marking to the boards, and the spines are occasionally sunned, but the joints are strong and the hinges aren't cracked. The pages are extremely bright white, and clean throughout. Each vol is 18cm high, 13cm across the boards. The set stretches 155cm along the shelf. There is mottling and marks to some boards, but overall, it's all there in the original format, and it's this that makes them so unusual. There are… Read More