The Heart of Mid-Lothian (Illustrated Library Edition of The Waverley Novels)
de Scott, Walter
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good +
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Boston: Cambridge, Massachusetts: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Riverside Press. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good +. The publication date and edition are not listed: we estimate a ca. 1880 publication date. Hardcover, terra-cotta red cloth with beveled boards, with Scott's silhouette, gilt, to the front cover, and the title, gilt, to the spine. The illustrations throughout the text are steel engravings. Condition is Very Good+, with light shelf wear, and lightly bumped corners. Pages: 406.
Sinopsis
Sir Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh in 1771. Educated for the law, he obtained the office of sheriff-depute of Selkirkshire in 1799 and in 1806 the office of clerk of session, a post whose duties he fulfilled for some twenty-five years. His lifelong interest in Scottish antiquity and the ballads which recorded Scottish history led him to try his hand at narrative poems of adventure and action. The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), Marmion (1808), and The Lady of the Lake (1810) made his reputation as one of the leading poets of his time. A novel, Waverley , which he had begun in 1805, was published anonymously in 1814. Subsequent novels appeared with the note “by the author of Waverley”; hence his novels often are called collectively “the Waverley novels.” Some of the most famous of these are Old Mortality (1816), Rob Roy (1817), Ivanhoe (1819), Kenilworth (1821), and Quentin Durward (1823). In recognition of his literary work Scott was made a baronet in 1819. During his last years he held various official positions and published biographies, editions of Swift and Dryden, tales, lyric poetry, and various studies of history and antiquity. He died in 1832.
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- Título
- The Heart of Mid-Lothian (Illustrated Library Edition of The Waverley Novels)
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- Scott, Walter
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good +
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- Reprint
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- Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Riverside Press
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- Boston: Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
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- Shelf Wear
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- Reprint
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- Good+
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- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
