Tales & Romances - Volumes VIII - XVI

London: Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd / Hurst, Robinson & Co.. Very Good/No DJ. 1833. Three Quarter Leather. 8vo No extra postage will be asked for within UK. Overseas postage will be charged at cost. Tales and Romances, volumes VIII - XVI. Three Quarter Leather over marbled boards. Previous owner's details on front paste downs. Illustrated title pages. Light foxing to some pages otherwise clean and tightly bound. Volume Titles and no. of pages: Volume VIII - Chronicles of the Canongate; The Highland Widow; The Two Drovers; My Aunt Margaret's Mirror; Death of the Laird's Jock; Chronicles of the Canongate Introductory; The Fair Maid of Perth - 488 pages. Volume IX - The Fair Maid of Perth - 500 pages. Volume X - The Fair Maid of Perth; Anne of Geierstein - 509 pages. Volume XI - Anne of Geierstein - 496 pages. Volume XII - Count Robert of Paris - 521 pages. Volume XIII - Count Robert of Paris; Castle Dangerous - 520 pages. Volume XIV - Castle Dangerous; The Surgeon's Daughter followed by glossary to the Waverley novels - 517 pages. Volume XV - Notes & Illustrations to the Novels, Tales and Romances, of the author of Waverley - 601 pages. Volume XVI - Notes & Illustrations to the Novels, Tales and Romances, of the author of Waverley - 613 pages with fold out ground plan of Kenilworth Castle to front of book. Sir Walter Scott was the first English-language author to have a truly international career in his lifetime. His novels and poetry are still read, and many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature. .