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WAVERLEY NOVELS--Volume VI - The Fortunes of Nigel. Quentin Durward. St. Ronan's Well
by SCOTT, SIR WALTER, BART
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- good
- Hardcover
- first
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- Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
USA: Collier Publishing, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Good Condition. Published circa 1880. 688 pages. 7.25" x 10.5" tall. Brown full cloth with elaborate debossed title and design in gilt around title with embellished first letter "W". Title in gilt on spine within elaborately designed panel--rubbed, barely visiblen spine. Sewn binding solid and tight. All edges speckled. Text/pages clean and unmarked, untorn. Corners and edges around spine scuffed. Double column format. Many wonderful and delightful illustrations by various artists-credits included. Frontispiece illustration of George Heriot Blessing the Lady Hermione; Inigo Jones, Architect; Philip Massinger, Dramatist; George Heriot Exhibiting the Judgment of Solomon to King James; Portrait of William Aytoune, Builder of Heriot's Hospital. Overlaid with onion skin. Contents: The Fortunes of Nigel, Quentin Durward, St. Ronan's Well.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017667
- Title
- WAVERLEY NOVELS--Volume VI - The Fortunes of Nigel. Quentin Durward. St. Ronan's Well
- Author
- SCOTT, SIR WALTER, BART
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Collier Publishing
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1880
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- CLASSIC LITERATURE; SCOTTISH LITERATURE- EARLY 19TH CENTURY;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction. Classics;
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