Old Mortality by Scott: Signed (2 results)

Navy Hardback. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition Thus. 1993. xvi, 522pp. SIGNED by Patricia Maxwell-Scott, Walter Scott's great great great granddaughter and Laird of Abbotsford "Patricia Maxwell-Scott Abbotsford June 3rd 1994". Part of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverly Novels. With acknowledgements and a general introduction. Foreword by David Daiches. Going back to the original manuscripts, a team of scholars has uncovered what Scott originally wrote and intended his public to read before errors, misreadings and expurgations crept in during production. The Edinburgh Edition offers you:* A clean, corrected text* Textual histories* Explanatory notes* Verbal changes from the first-edition text* Full glossaries. "The Tale of Old Mortality describes the lives - and often violent deaths - the hopes, and the struggles, of the Covenanters in late seventeenth-century Scotland. A tale of extremism, bigotry and cruelty, it is redeemed by its characters' courage and loyalty, and their passionate belief in religious and civil liberty. Considered to be one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century, its influence pervades European writing from Stendhal to Tolstoy." Book and unclipped dust jacket are in excellent condition. PLEASE NOTE - heavyish book so a little extra may be needed for shipping to non-UK customers. SIGNED COPY.…

Gr.-8°, Ledereinband. Gr. 8° (ca. 23 x 16 cm). Bordeauxfarbener Maroquin Ganzledereinband. Über 5 Bünden mit verg. Fileteneinfassung, vergoldete Innenkantenbordüre und Kopfgoldschnitte; sign. Meistereinband von Zaehnsdorf. Londen, London and Charles Black 1900. - Exceptionally bright and well preserved antique edition. Illustrated with 185 steel engravings. Full red morocco leather bindings by Zaehnsdorf. Signed and dated by the binder, 1900. Five raised bands, top edge gilt. Spine compartments and boards elaborately gilt tooled. Some very minor wear to boards at extremities, else Near Fine. Impressive edition of these seminal writings, bound by one of Europe`s eminent firms during its most desirable period of production. Uncut edges and 24 Volumes unopened! - Zustand: unbeschnitten u. 24 Bänden noch unaufgeschnitten. Ecken u. Buchrücken minimal bestoßen, ein sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar. - Contents: 1: Waverley or Tis Sixty Years Since; 2: Guy Mannering or The Astrologer; 3: The Antiquary; 4: Rob Roy; 5: Old Mortality; 6: The Black Dwarf / A Legend of Montrose; 7: The Heart of Midlothian; 8: The Bride of Lammermoor; 9: Ivanhoe; 10: The Monastery; 11: The Abbot; 12: Kenilworth; 13: The Pirate; 14: The Fortunes of Nigel; 15: Peveril of the Peak; 16: Quentin Durward; 17: St. Ronan`s Well; 18: Redgauntlet; 19: The Betrothed / Chronicles of the Canongate; 20: The Talisman / Chronicles of the Canongate; 21: Woodstock; 22: The Fair Maid of Perth or St. Valentine`s Day; 23: Anne of Geierstein or The Maiden of the Mist; 24: Count Robert of Paris; 25: The Surgeon`s Daughter / Castle Dangerous / Index & Glossary. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 35550.…