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WORKS OF WALTER SCOTT
by SCOTT, SIR WALTER
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Minimal Edge Wear./No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Merrill and Baker TWENTY-SIX VOLUMES uniformly bound. Marbled boards with matching endpapers. Top edges gilt. Spines lettered and designed in gilt. (See photos). Top edge of spine lightly frayed in several volumes. Each volume has a hand-colored frontispiece and is EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 30-40 full-page engraved illustrations with captioned tissue-guards. This is set # 196/500 of the Edition De Grande Luxe, undated but circa 1900. General introduction by Walter Besant. Our set contains 26 of 33 volumes, missing the four-volume biography of the author by Lockhart, two volumes of poetry, and "Ivanhoe". Included are: Old Mortality, Peveril of the Peak (2 volumes), Quentin Durwood, Red Gauntlet, Guy Mannerling, The Talisman, The Fair Maid of Perth, Woodstock, Monastery, The Heart of Midlothian (2 volumes), Rob Roy, Bride of Lammermoor, Count Robert of Paris, The Pirate, The Betrothed, Waverley, Surgeon's Daughter, Fortunes of Nigel, Anne of Geierstein, The Abbot, The Black Dwarf, St. Ronan's Well, Kenilworth, and The Antiquary. A beautifully-bound and very appealing set. We have found several individual volumes, small runs, but no complete or near-complete sets for sale in recent years. Postage will be extra for this large set.. Edition De Grande Luxe. 3/4 Malachite Morocco. Minimal Edge Wear./No Jacket. Royal Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013845
- Title
- WORKS OF WALTER SCOTT
- Author
- SCOTT, SIR WALTER
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Minimal Edge Wear.
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Edition De Grande Luxe
- Publisher
- Merrill and Baker
- Place of Publication
- London
- Size
- Royal Octavo
- Keywords
- Fine Binding, Sets, Hand-Colored Plates, Extra-Illustrated
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- A.N.
- The book is pristine and free of any defects, in the same condition as ...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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