Author: SCOTT, SIR WALTER
Title: Quentin Durward. With Illustrations by Comte, Delort, Marie, Pellicer, Pille, Sabatier, Taylor.
Description: London: Ward, Lock & Co 1890. (Selected Edition of the Waverley Novels). 466p bound in half calf with marbled edges and similar endpapers, lettering on spine in gilt, calf is still in good nick but just a bit rubbed along the hinges, a large format edition (27 cm tall, =Super-royal 8vo), frontisp, lavishly illustrated throughout with full page plates and illustrations in the text, very well preserved: The publisher's advert praises this as the best edition ever offered to the public: It is printed from a new fount of type, the paper is of extra quality and fineness, and the printing conducted with the greatest care. The llustrations are not merely fancy sketches, but present correct representations of Localities, Historical Personages, Costumes, Architectural Detail etc.

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