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Walter Scott | First Editions
1771 - 1832
See below our stock of Walter Scott First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
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Ivanhoe: A Romance.
New York, NY: The American News Company, no date [circa 1890's]. [Classic Literature] EARLY JACKET, 'Excelsior' edition, printed from the last revised edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 593 [9]. With a pair of facing wood engraved frontispieces. Publisher's green cloth elaborately decorated in black and gilt to spine and..... More
Shelley at Oxford. The Early Correspondence of P.B. Shelley with his Friend T.J. Hogg together with Letters of Mary Shelley and T.L. Peacock and a hitherto Unpublished Prose Fragment by Shelley. Edited by W.S. Scott.
The Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. Limited Edition to 500 numbered copies of which this is No. 279. Publisher's quarter brown morocco with gilt titles to spine, green cloth boards, top edge gilt others untrimmed. Binding slightly rubbed. A clean and tight copy. The third book of a trilogy, edited by..... More
Poetical Works.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1897. [Poetry] PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xliii; 559. Bound by Bickers of Leicester for Sherborne School in tree calf with raised bands, gilt tooling and titles to spine, gilt borders and school crests to boards, marbled edges and endpapers with a large prize bookplate..... More
The Waverley Novels. The works include: Waverley, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, etc.
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1886-1887. [English Literature] The Centenary Edition, complete in 25 volumes; Octavo (18 x 12 x 64cm). Frontispiece illustration to each volume. Contemporary decorative binding by Blackwell in green half morocco with gilt titles and gilt tooling of leaves and thistles to spines, marbled boards and..... More
Woodstock, or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-One.
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1887. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 503; [3]. With an engraved frontispiece and title page by the Dalziel brothers. In a fine prize binding for Harrow School. Slightly later full green calf with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a...... More
Waverley, or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since.
Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co., 1814. Second Edition, in ORIGINAL BOARDS. Three volumes. Octavo, with half-titles, edges untrimmed. Frontispiece illustration to each volume. A rare survival in the original grey-paper covered boards, with blue paper spine and printed title labels (lacking from vol. II). Some general wear to the fragile..... More
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.
London: George Routledge and Sons, no date [circa 1900]. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] xii; 740 [2]. With six engraved plates by Corbould. Printed on this paper with small print. Contemporary burgundy full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt ruling..... More
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet. The Globe Edition, with a Biographical and Critical Memoir by Francis Turner Palgrave.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.xliv; 559 [3]. Small print, mainly in two columns. Contemporary brown full morocco for Stonyhurst College, with raised bands, gilt titles and further gilt decoration to spine, as well as gilt school stamp to..... More
Anne of Geierstein, or, The Maiden of the Mist.
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1887. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 490; [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and title page by the Dalziel brothers. In a fine prize binding for Harrow School. Slightly later full green calf with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a...... More
The Antiquary.
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1886. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 438; [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and title page by the Dalziel brothers. In a fine prize binding for Harrow School. Slightly later full green calf with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a...... More
The Antiquary.
Philadelphia, PA: Porter & Coates, no date [1885]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Two volumes in one. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[4] 14; 3-241 [1]; pp.246 [4]. With a steel engraved frontispiece to each volume, and one further engrave plate. Contemporary blue half calf, with gilt titles to red label and..... More
Chronicles of the Canongate.
Edinburgh: Printed for Cadell & Co., 1827. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION IN PUBLISHER'S BOARDS. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[4] xxviii; 351 [1]; pp.[4] 374 [10]. Publisher's light brown pasteboards, with plain printed paper title labels to spines. All edges untrimmed. Twin black ink ownerships to fly-leaf..... More
The Fair Maid of Perth, or, St. Valentine's Day: Chronicles of the Canongate—Second Series.
Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1887. [Historical Romance] FINELY BOUND, Waverley Novels Centenary Edition, Vol. XXII. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 480 [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and vignette title page. Contemporary green full calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to twin red labels, and further gilt tooling to spine..... More
Tales of My Landlord. Third Series: The Bride of Lammermoor | A Legend of Montrose. From the last Revised Edition, containing the Author's final corrections, notes, etc.
Philadelphia, PA: Porter & Coates, no date [1885]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Two volumes in one. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] 14; 3-315 [1]; pp.52; xviii; 53-297 [5]. With an etched frontispiece to each volume. Contemporary blue half calf, with gilt titles to red label and further gilt decoration to..... More
The Talisman: A Tale of the Crusaders and The Chronicles of the Canongate.
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1887. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 419; [3]. With an engraved frontispiece and title page by the Dalziel brothers. In a fine prize binding for Harrow School. Slightly later full green calf with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a...... More
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