Has library stamp on top page edges and inside both covers. No other library markings noted. Book also has the initials FC on top page edges. Nick in one long page edge. Otherwise, quite a nice copy. While not pristine, book is generally clean. Binding is sound, and book appears minimally read. Beginning to tan.

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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: The Eclectic Eccentric (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 2023082603
Title: Kenilworth [complete and unabridged]
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Format/Binding: Mass market
Book Condition: Used - Good+
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0804901937
ISBN 13: 9780804901932
Publisher: Airmont Publishing Company, Inc.
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1969
Pages: 448

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