KENILWORTH
by SCOTT, SIR WALTER
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Havant, Hampshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: THOMAS NELSON AND SONS. REPRINT . Full Morocco. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A VERY GOOD condition volume in an attractive prize binding with a gilt motif inside a gilt rule box to front board. Binding tight and clean. approx 5.75 inches tall. All edges gilt. Presents very well. Inscription date 1912.
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 #
- 000198
- Title
- KENILWORTH
- Author
- SCOTT, SIR WALTER
- Format/Binding
- Full Morocco
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- REPRINT
- Publisher
- THOMAS NELSON AND SONS
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾
- Keywords
- Non-Classifiable
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
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