Anthony Hamilton; Sir Walter Scott

Memoirs of Count Grammont

Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1889. Cloth. A limited edition illustrated memoir of the Count de Gramont, written by his brother-in-law, a fascinating historical memoir on the courts of Louis XIV and Charles II. A limited edition work, limited to seven-hundred and eight copies, of which this is numbered one-hundred and seventy-six.The memoir of the life of Philibert de Gramont, a French nobleman. Edited with notes by Walter Scott.In 1662, Gramont was exiled from France for paying attentions to one of the Louis XIV's mistresses. He escape to the new court of Louis' cousin, Charles II, where he found an environment of pleasure, gallantry, and intrigue.A fascinating memoir showing first-hand insight into the courts of two of the most well regarded 'fun' kings of history.Illustrated with a frontispiece, eleven plates, and twenty-two in-text engravings by C. Delort.Collated, complete.Written by Antoine Hamilton, a soldier and author who fled to France during the Interregnum. Hamilton was the brother-in-law of Gramont.From the library of William S and John T Spaulding of Boston, Mass. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally, smart, with light marks to the boards and spine. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Label to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Small tidemark to the tail of the last few pages. Very Good . Ill.: C. Delort. Very Good .

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Book number: 762P6

Catalogue: Biography & Autobiography

Keywords: Memoirs of Count Grammont count gramont philibert de gramont antoine hamilton count gramont walter scott france C. Delort

HARDIE, JOHN L. (COMPILER); CONRAD, JOSEPH; BIERCE, AMBROSE; SCOTT, SIR WALTER; IRVING, WASHINGTON; POE, E. A.; HARDY, THOMAS; COLLINS, WILKIE; THACKERARY, W. M.; ET AL

Twenty-Two Strange Stories

Glasgow, Art and Educational Publishers. Hard, 8vo. Pages clean and bright, small previous owner inscription on front endpaper, boards and binding tidy with sunning to spine. Very Good.

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Book number: 83146

(Scott, Sir Walter) Hayden, John O.

Scott: The Critical Heritage

New York, Barnes & Noble, 1970. First Edition. 0 pp. 0389013315. Near fine in original blue cloth-covered boards in very good dust jacket with rubbing. Some tiny spots on the edges. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: b34099

Keywords: 0389013315

V. H. Collins [ed.]; Sir Walter Scott; Edgar Allen Poe; Henry James et al.

More Ghosts and Marvels: A Selection of Uncanny Tales from Sir Walter Scott to Michael Arlen

London, Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1927 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of V. H. Collins's scarce anthology of 'uncanny tales' from the early nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. A first edition thus, being the first edition of this anthology of previously published uncanny tales.Edited by Vere H. Collins.Consisting of twenty chilling and supernatural tales, including stories from Sir Walter Scott, Edgar Allen Poe, J. Sheridan le Fanu, Henry James, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and others.The advertisements to the rear have been removed. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Light shelf wear to back strip tail. Head of front joint starting, with board firmly held. Rear hinge strained, and just a touch tender. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Advertisements to the rear removed. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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Book number: 937F41

Catalogue: Ghost Stories

Keywords: uncanny tales ghost stories v h collins ghost stories None

Charles Kingsley; Sir Walter Scott; William Makepeace Thackeray

Hypatia, Ivanhoe, & Henry Esmond from Service & Paton

London, Service & Paton, 1897. Cloth. Three smart illustrated volumes from important novelists of the nineteenth century. Three volumes. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen plates. Collated complete. This set includes: Hypatia or New Foes with an Old Face, 1897. A fictionalised account of the life of the philosopher Hypatia, which tells the story of a young monk called Philammon who travels to Alexandria, where he becomes mixed up in the political and religious battles of the day. Written by Charles Kingsley, a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. Illustrated by Lancelot Speed, a coastal painter and a British illustrator Ivanhoe: A Romance, 1897. Set in England in the Middle Ages, this novel offers colourful descriptions of a tournament, outlaws, a witch trial, and divisions between Jews and Christians, Normans and Saxons. Written by Sir Walter Scott, a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Illustrated by Charles Edmund Brock, a widely published English painter, line artist and book illustrator. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. 1897. A historical fiction telling the story of the early life of Henry Esmond, a colonel in the service of Queen Anne of England, set against the backdrop of late seventeenth and early eighteenth century England. Written by William Makepeace Thackeray, an English novelist and illustrator. Illustrated by Christiana Mary Demain Hammond, known as Chris Hammond, was an English painter and illustrator. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spines with the odd small mark to the boards. Front hinge starting but firm to Ivanhoe. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Age toning to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper or pastedown. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown of Henry Esmond. Very Good . Ill.: Lancelot Speed; C. E. Brock; Chris. Hammond. Very Good .

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Book number: 932T50

Catalogue: English Literature Pre 1900

Keywords: Hypatia Ivanhoe Henry Esmond Ivanhoe Scott Thackeray Lancelot Speed; C. E. Brock; Chris. Hammond

Sir Walter Scott: Andrew Lang

The Waverley Novels

London, Macmillan & Co, 1901. Leather. The complete twenty four volume set of the illustrated 'Border' editions of the Waverley Novels by the celebrated Sir Walter Scott, with notes by Andrew Lang and in a Hatchards half calf binding. The illustrated 'Border edition&apos. Twenty-four volume complete set. Bound by Hatchards in half calf with cloth to the boards, with their binder's stamp to the verso of the front free endpaper. This set features the complete collection of Sir Walter Scott's famous 'Waverley Novels&apos. The 'Waverley' novels were some of the most popular and widely read novels of the time when they were published, increasing Scott's reputation to become one of the most recognisable literary names of the Georgian era. 'Waverley', the first novel in the series, was Scott's first adventure into historical literature, and has been widely acknowledged as one of the first pieces of historical fiction.This collection is comprised of: Volume I 'Waverley, or 'Tis Sixty Years Since' (1922). With twelve illustrated plates.Volume II 'Guy Mannering or The Astrologer' (1919). With ten plates.Volume III 'The Antiquary' (1930). With ten plates.Volume IV 'Rob Roy' (1915). With ten plates.Volume V 'Old Mortality' (1925). With ten plates. Volume VI 'The Heart of Midlothian' (1901). With ten plates.Volume VII ' A Legend of Montrose & The Black Dwarf' (1901).With seven plates. Volume VIII 'The Bride of Lammermoor' (1901). With eight plates. Volume IX 'Ivanhoe' (1923). With twelve plates. Volume X 'The Monastery' (1925). With ten plates.Volume XI 'The Abbot' (1901). With ten plates. Volume XII 'Kenilworth' (1920). With twelve plates.Volume XIII 'The Pirate' (1901). With ten plates. Volume XIV 'The Fortunes of Nigel' (1901).With ten plates.Volume XV 'Peveril of the Peak' (1901). With fifteen plates. Volume XVI 'Quentin Durward' (1927). With twelve plates. Volume XVII 'St Ronan's Well' (1901). With ten plates. Volume XVIII 'Redgauntlet' (1901). With twelve plates. Volume XIX 'The Betrothed & The Talisman' (1901). With ten plates. Volume XX 'Woodstock' (1920). With ten plates. Volume XXI 'The Fair Maid of Perth' (1901). With ten plates. Volume XXII 'Anne of Geierstein' (1901). With ten plates. Volume XXIII 'Count Robert of Paris & The Surgeon's Daughter' (1901).With ten plates. Volume XXIV 'Castle Dangerous Chronicles of the Canongate Etc.' (1901). With ten plates. Collated, complete to all volumes. Bound in half calf with cloth to the boards. Externally very smart with fading to the spines, slight rubbing to the extremities, damp stains to the boards to volumes '18, 12, 19, 1, 5, 13, 22, 8 and 7&apos. Minimal offsetting to the extremities of the endpapers. Internally firmly bound with lightly age toned and occasional spotting. The occasional page unopened. Very Good . Ill.: Lockhart Bogle; Sir George Reid et al. Very Good .

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Book number: 903Z32

Catalogue: World Literature

Keywords: Waverley novels Sir Walter Scott Andrew Lang Illustrated Sir Walter Scott Lockhart Bogle; Sir George Reid et al.

(Scott, Sir Walter) Lockhart, J. G.

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott. Second edition. Ten volumes

Edinburgh / London, Robert Cadell / John Murray and Whittaker & Co. 1839. 0 pp. Hardcover. All ten volumes are bound in 3/4 leather over cloth boards with five raised bands, gilt decorations, gilt top edge, and marbled endpapers. Light shelfwear, one volume has a small scrape on the top edge fo the rear board, one volume has 4-5 pages with ruffled corners, Frontispiece and engraved title-page in each volume. Near Fine.

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Book number: b32980

(Scott, Sir Walter; Sunday, Billy; Fitzgerald, F. Scott; et al). Marks, Patricia H.; editor

Princeton University Library Chronicle. Volume LVIII. Number 2. Winter 1997. (Cover Title).

(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library), (1997). (1997). - Octavo, softcover bound in printed light gray wrappers. The edges of the front wrap are lightly foxed. [viii] pages & pages 199-328. Black-and-white illustrations, including facsimiles. Very good.

Among the contents of this issue are "The Manuscript of [Sir Walter Scott's] The Pirate", "Disconsolations of a New Jersey Muskrat: The Civil War Letters of Symmes H. Stillwell" and notes on the library's F. Scott Fitzgerald centennial exhibition. Also, "Clubbable Christianity and Controversy: Fundamentalists and Modernists at Princeton..in 1915. Very good .

Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 32878

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: LITERATURE; AMERICANA; CIVIL WAR; PERIODICAL; PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY CHRONICLE; PATRICIA H. MARKS, EDITOR; NOVELISTS; SIR WALTER SCOTT; THE MANUSCRIPT OF THE PIRATE; F. SCOTT FITZGERALD CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION; DISCONSOLATIONS OF A NEW JERSEY MUSKRAT:

Max Bruch, Sir Walter Scott

Ave Maria (Ave Maria Konigin), Soprano Scene from the Dramatic Cantata "The Fiery Cross" Op 52 No. 6, adapted from Sir Walter Scott's "The Lady of the Lake". No 2

Sheet Music N Simrock, Richard Schauer, London, No date. Edition Unstated, Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Words in German and English. Paper covers with previous owner's name (William Varcoe) in top corner, split on fold, 2 loose folded inserted sheets as published, clean pages. Text is in German. Item Type: Sheet Music. No publication date stated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 13111010085. ISBN: 0002212951

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Book number: 13111010085

Catalogue: Music, Opera, Ballet, Dance

Keywords: BZDB4 , sheet-music, vocal score, song Music, Opera, Ballet, Dance; Music - scores for songs & vocal works; Sheetmusic; German Language; Max Bruch, Sir Walter Scott Ave Maria (Ave Maria Konigin), Soprano Scene from the Dramatic Cantata "The Fiery Cross" O

RITSON, JOSEPH (ED), GOLDSMITH, OLIVER & SCOTT, SIR WALTER

The Poetical Works of Goldsmith and Scott and the Poems, Songs and Ballads Relating to Robin Hood

London and Glasgow: Richard Griffin and Company, c. 1861. First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's blue blind-tooled cloth, nd (circa 1861), with embossed gilt medallion surrounding titles on cover; titles in gilt compartment on spine with additional blind-tooled and embossed gilt decoration. Book is in three sections, the pagination being taken from the plates with which the publisher was working. The first section is "The Poems and Plays of Oliver Goldsmith" (71 pages with b&w frontis and illust title page by Dalziel). The next section is "The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott" in which each of the works is paginated individually (see pagination notation above) totaling 134 pages with one b&w illustration. They are: "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" (30 pages), "Ballads and Lyrical Pieces" (46 pages), "Marmion" (48 pages), "The Lady of the Lake" (40 pages). The final section is "Robin Hood: a Collection of Poems, Songs, and Ballads relative to that celebrated English Outlaw" edited by Joseph Ritson (112 pages with a b&w frontis by H. E. and illustrated title page showing Robin in his sick bed at the gatehouse of Kirklees Abbey, about to shoot his final arrow out of the open window, in order to mark his place of burial). Prize award sticker dated 1861. Corners and top/bottom spine bumped, the top of spine has top edge rubbed down25" to the cloth and bottom spine has small slit about5" along back edge. Otherwise covers are bright with no fading. Front hinge is pulled, there are no inscriptions just the prize award sticker. There are a few faint water marks at the top of some of the pages. otherwise Good. Very scarce.. Standard British Poets Series. Engravings. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. (viii),71,(v),46,48,40,(vi),112 pp. Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 1988

Catalogue: Robin Hood

Keywords: History; Medieval History; Robin Hood; Poetry; Literature; Literary Criticism; Sir Walter Scott Oliver Goldsmith Joseph Ritson Novels, Poetry & Literature Robin Hood Poetry

ROBERTSON, SIR WALTER SCOTT; J. LOGIE

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott

Garage R a5 brown beige text, Oxford University Press. 1951. Hardcover. Our copy 1960. Hardback with dust jacket (clipped) in reasonable condition for its age, pages clean, browning to page edges, jacket all there but some scuffs etc to edges. Used: Acceptable.

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Book number: 30386

Sir Walter Scott; J. Logie Robertson, ed

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott with the Author's Introductions and Notes

London, Henry Frowde, 1913. Leather. 970p. FINE BINDING BY BUMPUS. A hardcover book bound in full teal leather with gilt trim on the boards, spine, and dentelles. The foredges are fully gilt. The spine is sun-tanned and has a slightly crackly appearance. The edges are rubbed and the tips of the endpapers are tanned. Otherwise, the pages are clean and the binding secure. A handsomely bound, vintage volume in very good condition. A poetry anthology with text double-columned on each page. .

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Book number: 177086

Catalogue: Literature & Fiction

Sir Walter Scott

1893 the Poetical Works of Lord Byron. With Memoir and the Original Explanatory Notes, &C. 1893 the Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: Including Introduction and Notes 1894 the Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Reprinted from the Revised American Edition, Including Recent Poems. ) 1894 the Works of Shakespeare. With Life, Glossary, Etc. â Prepared from the Texts of the First Folio, the Quartos, and Compared with Recent Commentators.

London , Frederick Warne and Co. 1893. Leather. A half leather bound collection of poetical works from Longfellow, Scott and Byron, as well as classic plays from William Shakespeare. This set of four volumes contains the "Albion" editions of these works.All in half calf binding with marbled boards and gilt detailing.This set of works include:1893 The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. With Memoir and The original Explanatory Notes, &c.Including works such as 'Hours of Idleness' and 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage&apos.1893 The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: Including Introduction and Notes Includes 'The Lady of the Lake', 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel' and a series of miscellaneous poems. 1894 The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Reprinted from the revised American Edition, including recent poems). Includes early works such as 'An April Day', his sonnets and an array of miscellaneous poems. 1894 The Works of Shakespeare. With Life, Glossary, etc. Contains a memoir of the playwright as well as his will. Features classic works such as 'The Tempest' and 'Romeo and Juliet&apos. In half calf binding with marbled boards and gilt detailing. Externally, with rubbing to the extremities, heaviest to the spines. Small losses of leather to 'Walter Scott' and 'Longfellow&apos. Fading to the spine. Marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper of 'Walter Scott&apos. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

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Book number: 908Y22

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Poetry Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Shakespeare Sir Walter Scott Henry Wadsworth Longfellow None

SCOTT, SIR WALTER

Abbot

[SCOTT, Sir Walter]. THE ABBOT. In Three Volumes. Edinburgh: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London [etc.], 1820. First edition. Small 8vo, quarter brown calf, brown marbled boards. Flyleaves missing from volume 2, hinges internally strengthend, leather spine label on volume 3 only. Spines split and lifting, need rebinding, as is. Ill.: FE.

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Book number: 78075

Scott, Sir Walter

The Abbot/ Vol. I

M. Carey & Son, Philadelphia, 1820. Hardcover. First US Edition, published the same year as the first Edinburgh edition. Vol. I of 2. Condition: Good - full leather with gilt decorations to spine and black & gold title to spine; corners rubbed; leather on spine worn; pages clean, but uniformly darkened with age; two faded signatures to free page. Ill.: 0. Good 3.

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Book number: 000212