Author: SCOTT, SIR WALTER
Title: Quentin Durward (Everyman's Library #140)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1969. Hardcover. ISBN: 046000140X. A 1969 reprint of a work which first appeared in an Everyman's Library edition in 1906. Sir Walter Scott's 1823 historical novel is set in 15th century France during the reign of Louis XI and features a Scottish archer who is in service to the king. Includes Scott's introduction, his endnotes and a preface & glossary of archaic terms by W. M. Parker. Entry 140 in Everyman's Library Fiction series. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 5. Full green cloth-look paper-covered boards with titling and "Everyman's Library" gilt-stamped on spine, dolphin-and-anchor device borrowed from Aldine press in gilt at tail of spine. In purple dust jacket with "Everyman's Library" surrounded by scrollwork to front panel. --- An about-Near Fine copy: bright, tightly-bound and unmarked, though with prior owner's rubberstamping to front free endpaper & small indentation to upper front cover corner. Price-clipped jacket with a small tear to upper front corner and mildly sunned spine, else intact, bright and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector. ; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall) ; xvi, 470, 8 (ads) pages. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .

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