c1880 Waverley Novels

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Illustrated, Leather Binding, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Complete in twenty-five volumes. Author's edition. With a frontispiece and title vignette to each volume. Collated complete. The Waverley Novels, a collection created by the author to produce a final version of what is considered his Magnum Edition. With an introduction and notes of adjustments to the text. These novels are said to have played a significant part in the movement to modern historical novels and in rehabilitating public perception of the Scottish Highlands. Written by Sir Walter Scott, a Scottish historian, poet, playwright, and novelist whose works remain classics of European literature. This set includes: Waverley or 'Tis Sixty Years Since. Guy Mannering or The Astrologer. The Antiquary. Rob Roy. Old Morality. A Legend of Montrose and The Black Dwarf (Tales of My Landlord). The Heart of Midlothian (Tales of My Landlord). The Bride of Lammermoor. Ivanhoe: A Romance. 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 and the Chronicles of Canongate. The Talisman: A Tale of the Crusaders and the Chronicles of Canongate. Woodstock or The Cavalier: A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-One. The Fair Maiden of Perth or St. Valentine's Day: Chronicles of the Canongate Second Series. Anne of Geierstein or The Maiden of the Mist. Count Robert of Paris. The Surgeon's Daughter and Castle Dangerous. Dated from the Swansea University Libraries.