SCOTT, SIR WALTER

The Heart of Midlothian

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1906. Leather. A handsome, compact leatherbound edition of Scott's historical novel, the seventh in his Waverley series of novels. Chiefly set in Edinburgh, the novel's backdrop is the Porteous Riots of 1736. The text is accompanied by numerous full-page black & white illustrations. Includes an introduction by J. C. Volume VII in publisher's series "The Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Tales of my Landlord. - Second Series". --- In soft flexible navy leather covers. With gilt-stamped spine titling & decorations; top edge gilt. Lacks a dust jacket. --- Though the appearance of the leather is very poor due to sunning and dampstains, the leather has retained its supple feel. Interior is clean & firm, though a prior owner's inked gift inscription has been covered by a plain white sticker, dulling to textblock edge gilding and with some minor dampstains.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); xx, 699 pages. Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 80668

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SCOTT, SIR WALTER

The Heart of Midlothian (Everyman's Library #134)

London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1943. Hardcover. A 1943 reprint of the 1906 issuance. An Everyman's Library edition of Sir Walter Scott's historical novel, the seventh in his Waverley series. Chiefly set in Edinburgh, the story is set against the Porteous Riots of 1736. With a brief editor's introduction and glossary of archaic terms at rear of volume. Entry 134 in Everyman's Library Fiction series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In Everyman's Library binding style 3, printed on ultra-thin paper stock, with full carmine cloth and spine titling in gilt; blindstamped Eric Ravilious-designed 'shell' to cover. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With slightly warped front board, prior owner's signature to front free endpaper and with a couple of mis-cut leaves, else an unmarked, tightly-bound copy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall ; x, 559 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 85087

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SCOTT, SIR WALTER

The Heart of Midlothian (in Maroon Leatherette Covers, Everyman's Library #134)

London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, [c.1906]. First Edition Thus. Flexible Leatherette. An undated, likely First Everyman's Library edition [c.1906] of Sir Walter Scott's historical novel, the seventh in his Waverley series. Chiefly set in Edinburgh, the story is set against the Porteous Riots of 1736. With a brief editor's introduction and glossary of archaic terms at rear of volume. Entry 134 in Everyman's Library Fiction series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In Everyman's style 1 maroon flexible leatherette variant binding with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt titling & floral decorations to cover and spine, ornate Knowles woodcut illustrations to title and frontis pages and to endpapers, top edge gilt, fragile sewn-in silk ribbon placemarker and rounded corners of leaves. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- A Good-only copy, with yellowed transparent tape applied to spine ends, loosened hinges, previous owner's inked info. to front endsheet, some scuffing to leather at head of spine, otherwise an attractive, sound copy.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); x, 559 pages. Good with no dust jacket .

Bluebird BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 86601

Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Everyman's Library Editions

SCOTT, SIR WALTER

The Heart of Midlothian (Everyman's Library #134)

London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1947. Hardcover. A 1947 reprint of the 1906 issuance. An Everyman's Library edition of Sir Walter Scott's historical novel, the seventh in his Waverley series. Chiefly set in Edinburgh, the story is set amidst the Porteous Riots of 1736. With a brief editor's introduction and glossary of archaic terms at rear of volume. Entry 134 in Everyman's Library Fiction series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In EL binding style 3 with full carmine cloth-covered boards and gilt-stamped spine titling; blindstamped Eric Ravilious-designed 'shell' to cover and brown topstain. In dust jacket with Ravilious 'knot' to front panel. --- With prior owner's signature to front paste-down & retailer's sticker to rear free endpaper, else a tightly-bound and unmarked copy. Thin wartime jacket with light chafing at edges, moderately darkened spine, otherwise bright, intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall ; x, 559, 8 (ads) pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 87885

Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Everyman's Library Editions

Scott, Sir Walter

The Heart of Midlothian

Nelson Classics, z.j.,XXpp.intro.+576pg., 15x10,5cm., geb.hardcover.stofomslag, goed (verkl.vlekjes snee en schutbl.).

KastenvolPrivate seller

Book number: 105011718

Catalogue: historisch

Keywords: literatuur

Jedediah Cleishbotham [Sir Walter Scott]

Tales of My Landlord, Second Series [the Heart of Midlothian]

Edinburgh, Archibald Constable, 1818. First edition. Leather. The four volume first edition of Sir Walter Scott's novel 'The Heart of Midlothian', the second work in his 'Tales of My Landlord' series. The first edition, first issue: lacking signature on dedication leaf of volume I; with the misspelling 'Wichtcraft' to volume II, page 52; with page 348 of volume IV miss numbered as 438.The second series of 'Tales of My Landlord', this work can also be viewed as the seventh of Scott's Waverly novels. Set between 1736 and 1736, the plot of the work is set into motion by the Porteous Riots in Edinburgh, and involves a working class Edinburgh girl's travels to London, to obtain a royal commutation of the death penalty incurred by her sister.Bound without half titles.With the armorial bookplate of Nathanael Ellison to front pastedowns, and an engraved plate pasted to the front free endpaper of each volume. In half morocco bindings, with marbled paper covered boards. Discolouration to back strips, with rubbing to spine heads and tails, and joints. With both hinges of volumes I and IV, and the front hinge of volume III strained, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to title pages, with pages generally clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 850F31

Catalogue: English Literature Pre 1900

Keywords: The Heart of Midlothian Sir Walter Scott Waverley Novels scottish literature Sir Walter Scott nathanael ellison None

Scott, Sir Walter

The Waverley Novels, Complete 48 Volume Set. Waverley, Guy Mannering, Antiquary, Rob Roy, Old Mortality, Heart of Midlothian, Legend of Montrose, Bride of Lammermoor, Ivanhoe, Monastery, Abbot, Kenilworth, Pirate, Fortunes of Nigel, Peveril of the Peak, Quentin Durward, St. Ronan's Well, Red Gauntlet, the Betrothed, the Talisman, Woodstock, Highland Widow/Two Drovers, Fair Maid of Perth, Anne of Geierstein, Count Robert of Paris, Castle Dangerous, Surgeon's Daughter

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1879. 12mo. Very Good, Half Leather On Marbled Boards & End Papers, Pages Top Edge Gilt, with some edge & minor shelf wear. Provenance: John Ruyle; William Whitman's bookplate inside cover. Illustrated with Steel & Wood Engravings. Each volume between 350-500 pages. Vols 12, 25 & 46 have detached boards. Vols 24 & 28 have small tears on end papers. Vols 38 & 48: head of spine chipped with portion missing. Vol. 26: head of spine repaired, corners rubbed, rebound Half Leather On Green Cloth, Mixed Marbled End Papers. Vol. 27: boards loose, corners rubbed, rebound Half Leather On Green Cloth, Mixed Marbled End Papers. .

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Book number: 15-3674

Catalogue: Books

Sir Walter Scott

Waverley, or Is &Apos;Tis Sixty Years Since; Guy Mannering; the Antiquary; Rob Roy; the Tale of Old Mortality; a Legend of Montrose and the Black Dwarf; the Heart of Midlothian; the Bride of Lammermoor; Ivanhoe; the Monastery; the Abbot; Kenilworth; the Pirate; the Fortunes of Nigel; Peveril of the Peak; Quentin Durward; St. Ronan&Apos;S Well; the Redgauntlet; the Betrothed and the Highland Widow; the Talisman and Chronicles of the Canongate (Continued); Woodstock; the Fair Maid of Perth; Count Robert of Paris; the Surgeon&Apos;S Daughter and Castle Dangerous

London, Adam & Charles Black, 1871. Leather. A leather bound set of Walter Scott's popular historical novels. A leather bound set of Walter Scott's Waverley Novels. The illustrated centenary edition of Scott's historical novels set in the medieval era, and the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The author's fascination with moments of transition is evident in this twenty five volume set, and the novels demonstrate his belief that very different societies move through the same stages as they develop. For nearly a century after their publication, the lawyer's novels continued to be read all across Europe. Prior owner's bookplate to the front pastedown of volume I, 'Captain J. Hardy Welsby, The Grange, Southport&apos. Welsby has also inscribed his name in ink to the front free endpaper, dated 1882. Welsby co-founded Hesketh golf club in Southport. There is another ink inscription to the top edge of the same page by 'Emma Herring', beneath which Coela Harrison and Rosemary Herring's names can be found, dated 1919 and 1948 respectively next to their relation to Emma Herring. With six plates to volume I. With eight plates to volume II. With six plates to volume III. With seven plates to volume IV. With seven plates to volume V. With six plates to volume VI. With eight plates to volume VII. With seven pates to volume VIII. With six plates to volume IX. With six plates to volume X. With six plate to volume XI. With five plates to volume XII. With eight plates to volume XIII. With six plates to volume XIV. With nine plates to volume XV. with five plates to volume XVI. With five plates to volume XVII. With five plates to volume XVIII. With seven plate to volume XIX. With six plates to volume XX. With eight plates to volume XXI. With six plates to volume XXII. With five plates to volume XXIII. With four plates to volume XXIV. With five plates to volume XXV. In a contemporary half calf binding over patterned boards. Externally, generally smart. Lightly rubbed to the boards and the spine, with some minor wear to the extremities. There is a tiny chip in the spine label to volume XII, and volume XIII is missing a slither of leather to the head of the spine. The rear hinges are starting to volumes II, III and XVI, and the hinge is a little loose to III. The front and rear hinges are also starting to volume I, and the binding at the front and the rear of the volume is a little loose as a consequence. Otherwise, volumes are firmly bound. Aside from some light foxing to the front and the rear of the volumes, and to the plates and their surrounding pages, pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Various. Very Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 861N44

Catalogue: English Literature Pre 1900

Keywords: Sir Walter Scott Waverley Novels Leather Binding Library Set Waverley Novels Guy Mannering Ivanhoe Various