Author: Crockett, W S
Title: The Scott Originals - An Account Of Notables And Worthies ; The Originals Of Characters In The Waverley Novels
Description: T N Foulis, London & Edinburgh, 1912, 1st edition. Cloth, P+. xvi+432pp, colour frontis, 41 b/w plates including 2 folding, index, buckram very rubbed & worn with the corners bumped & spine very faded, a reading copy. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ Biographies of the people who gave inspiration to Scott for characters in his fiction. Characters, eponymous and otherwise, from the works Waverley, Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Black Dwarf, Old Mortality, Rob Roy, The Heart of Midlothian, Bride of Lammermoor, Montrose, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, St Ronan's Well, Redgauntlet, Chronicles of Cannongate & The Surgeon's Daughter.

Keywords: scottish literature, biography