Kenilworth
by Scott, Sir Walter
- Used
- good
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Martinsville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York: George Routledge & Sons, 1831. Edge and corner wear; no dj; corners are bumped and rubbed; scuffed and scratched; pages are toning; shelf worn; former owner's name is in ink on the inner front cover; overall a nice used copy! No publishing date, but the introduction is dated 1831. Yellow decorated cloth with black and yellow lettering on the front board and spine. 423 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! "A certain degree of success, real or supposed, in the delineation of Queen Mary, naturally induced the author to attempt something similar respecting 'her sister and her foe,' the celebrated Elizabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have approached the task with the same feelings; for the candid Robertson himself confesses having felt the prejudices with which a Scottishman is tempted to regard the subject; and what so liberal a historian avows, a poor romance-writer dares not disown..............." -------- from the Introduction.. Reprint. Yelllow Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
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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- Bookseller
- Conover Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 048918
- Title
- Kenilworth
- Author
- Scott, Sir Walter
- Format/Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- George Routledge & Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1831
- Keywords
- FICTION LITERATURE LITERARY WORKS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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