Quentin Durward
by [SCOTT, Walter]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., 1823. In three volumes. [2], lxiii, [1], 273, [1]; 331, [1]; 360pp. Without half-titles. Bound by Swinnerton of Macclesfield in contemporary blind-stamped half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed. Binder's tickets and armorial bookplates of Thomas Hibbert to all FEPs, contemporary inked ownership inscriptions of Carolina H. Hibbert to all titles. The first edition of Sir Walter Scott's (1771-1832) historical novel centred on a Scottish archer in the service of the French King Louis XI; the seventeenth title in the Waverley Novels series. The present copy was bound by James Swinnerton, bookseller, bookbinder, and stationer, printer and publisher of the Macclesfield Herald and Congleton Gazette, and sometime agent to the London Genuine Tea Company. From the library of sometime High Sheriff of Cheshire, Thomas Hibbert (1788-1879). In 1823 Thomas had married Mary Caroline Henrietta Cholmondely (1803-1879), the eldest daughter of Charles Cholmondeley of Overleigh, Cheshire. In 1835, Hibbert inherited the family seat of Birtles Hall from his father Robert, alongside the staggering sum of £250,000 in personalty as well as his 'Jamaica estates with slaves, stocks etc.' . First edition. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ25781
- Title
- Quentin Durward
- Author
- [SCOTT, Walter]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed for Archibald Constable and Co.
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1823
- Keywords
- Literature
- Size
- 8vo
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
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Wareham, Dorset
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