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The Waverley Novels (Complete Set of 24 Volumes)
by Scott, Sir Walter
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
George Routledge & Sons. Good+. 1880. Hardcover. No publishing date but appears circa 1880. Complete set of 24 volumes including Glossary. Brown cloth covers, blind-stamped with black designs and gilt spine titles. Bindings on all volumes are solid, and pages unmarked but a little tanned. Foxing on early pages of nearly all volumes (especially on the tissue page protecting the frontispiece. Pen-and-ink drawings scattered throughout. Cover have a little wear to edges, but otherwise okay, including spine titles. .
Synopsis
The Waverley Novels are a long series of novels by Sir Walter Scott, a Scottish writer and historian. For nearly a century, they were among the most popular and widely read novels in all of Europe. Scott did not publicly acknowledge authorship until 1827, causing the series to take its name from Waverley, the first novel of the series published in 1814. The later books bore the words "by the author of Waverley" on their title pages. The Tales of my Landlord sub-series was not advertised as "by the author of Waverley" and as a result not always included as part of the Waverley Novels series.
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- Bookseller
- Eat My Words Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34481
- Title
- The Waverley Novels (Complete Set of 24 Volumes)
- Author
- Scott, Sir Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Publisher
- George Routledge & Sons
- Date Published
- 1880
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Eat My Words Books
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
About Eat My Words Books
We are a small, independent book shop in NE Minneapolis. We sell mostly used books with a section of new books by local authors. We also have a large rare and collectible book section. Our real storefront hosts all sorts of community events and often serves up bread, coffee, and tea.
Glossary
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- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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