The Monastery by Walter Scott, First Edition (44 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. Limited/Numbered. The International Limited Edition No. 371/1000. With Introductory Essay And Notes By Andrew Lang, With Illustrations. Sl. Edgewear/Shelfwear, Spine Label Worn, Front Hinge Started, Frontis Tissue Intact. B/W Illus. P/O Stamps Indicate Withdrawn From A Library, But No Indication Of Pocket, Etc. Well Cared For Volume. 248 Pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 8vo. rough edges, foxing, wear red. Book.

First Edition. Poor copy bound in the original leather binding in blind bordered cloth with a gilt title to the spine. Wear and tear as with age. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Series; Waverley novels. Physical description; lxi, 452 pages ; 17 cm. Subjects; Monastic and religious life ; Fiction. Reformation ; Fiction. Monks ; Fiction. Scotland History (1561-1587) ; Fiction. Genre; Fiction. 1 Kg.

Leather. Condition: Good/Acceptabe. No Jacket. 1st Edition. No Dust Jacket Red leather covers with gilt design and lettering (faded) on spine, slight damage on spine, decorative green sunned endpapers, red top page edges, otherwise clean tight copy in good/acceptable condition, 518pp with thirty-six illustrations. including Frontispiece Mary Stuart with facsimile of her handwriting Red ribbon marker. Published 1912 and published by Henry Frowd, Oxford University Press Book#102356.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Edition De Luxe. Green/paper title plate. Engravings, color title page, limited to one thousand copies. 374 pgs. Prefatory, xxi. The Surgeon's Daughter, 376 pgs. index.

First Edition. Poor copy bound in the original leather binding in blind bordered cloth with a gilt title to the spine. Wear and tear as with age. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Series; Waverley novels. Physical description; lxi, 452 pages ; 17 cm. Subjects; Monastic and religious life ; Fiction. Reformation ; Fiction. Monks ; Fiction. Scotland History (1561-1587) ; Fiction. Genre; Fiction. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Volume 3 only. 12mo. Half calf and marbled paper boards. Small engraved bookplate. Overall rubbing and scuffing to the calf and boards, corners are worn, else an about very good clean copy.

1st ed. Vol.I only (of 3); in plain paperboards, with dark green half-leather. Pictorial title page (dated 1821) & engraved plate foxed, with offsetting to facing pages. Small worm-damage at corner of back pastedown; leather worn at board corners, & darkened on spine, with wear & loss Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback in green half-leather.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st ed. Vol. 3 only. Original half-calf.

First edition thus. 8vo. [xxiii], 429 pp. / [l], 461 pp. / Frontispiece. Illustrations. Hardcover binding, gilt lettering spine, t.e.g., overaal very good codition. (97114).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed by previous owner.

Hardcover. First Edition Thus; Second Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good+ price clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st ed. Vols 1 & 3 only, vol. 3 lacking the front endpaper. Modern plain cloth.

8vo. half leather over green cloth-covered boards, leather tips, gilt borders on boards with small gilt circles, five raised bands, gilt on spine, top edge gilt. 331; 333;351 pages. Three Volumes. First edition. Spines faded, minor rubbing to extremities. Bookplate removed from the front and rear pastedowns of all three volumes. Minor dampstaining throughout. A good set. half leather over green cloth-covered boards, leather tips, gilt borders on boards with small gilt circles, five raised bands, gilt on spine, top edge gilt.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. H/B 509 pages, Condition is As New.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First French Edition. Apparent first French edition (but English-language text). Three volumes (complete). A Poor set in original full brown leather edged in gold. All covers are present, with light edge-rubbing. All spines are damaged or missing. An uncommon early edition, suitable for re-binding in the original covers. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. P. Viii, 336; 348; 372. With All Half-Titles And Fly-Titles And Preliminary And Final Blanks. Complete In Three Volumes, Todd & Bowden's First Issue With Volume I: Page 263 Mis-Numbered 268, P. 226 Last Line "Attention" (In Some Copies Of First And Second Editions It Is "Attentoin"). .; Vol Ii: Chapters Duplicated Pp 26 And 63, Again 89 And 123, Others Misnumbered Accordingly. Finely Bound In Full Green Crushed Morocco, Gilt, Gilt Turns, Gilt Edges, And Gilt Top Edges Of Page Blocks, Marbled Endpapers. Would Be Fine, Except Rear Board Detached (But Present) On Volume Iii.[One Of A Set Of Seven Scott First Edition Novels In Matching Green Crushed Morocco, Offered Separately).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, with all the half-titles. Octavo, three volumes: 331 p. + 333 p. + 351 p. Original paper-covered boards, with printed paper spine labels. The bookplate of B. George Ulizio appears on each front pastedown. The spines are toned, with some loss to the tips and along the joints. Housed in a custom cloth slipcase.

Decorative Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Seven volumes of the 1890 release of the Waverly Novels - Bound in contemporary grey-blue half-calf with intricate gilt decorartions. marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. All with spines missing, bottom edges have signs of wear. With frontispieces and vignette titles. Novel titles are: Woodstock: The Fair Maid of Perth: Kenilworth: The Monastery: The Abbot: Count Robert of Paris: The Betrothed. All have bookplates on front pastedowns (Philpot Brookes). Pages are all clean and tight. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. 42 illustrations. 452 pgs. Very clean text bound in red with gilt lettering and design on spine. Embossed design on front cover. Decorative end papers. Front and back covers have slight discoloration. Spine slightly sun faded. Cover edges and spine ends worn. Gilt upper page edges.

Ownership Inscription on endpaper, VG bright tight copy in publishers cloth in like dustjacket.Penny Fielding's new edition of Scott's second departure from his recent Scottish history, The Monastry, contains a facinating account of how this novel came into being before the success of Ivahoe was assured, and for this alone it would be a valuable resource for the serious student of Scott's work. Yet it is also an impressive work of textual scholarship, while being the first fully-annotated edition of one of the moe critically neglected of the Waverly series. Scott enthusiasts . owe a debt of gratitude to Penny Fielding for making the novel available in such a helpful, scholarly, but still thoroughly readable form.The best and most thoroughly pioneering textual editing project in the history of Scottish literary scholarship . In the Edinburgh Edition, the specifics of the various transmissional layers are dealt with in an "Essay on the Text", particular to each novel, and each essay would make for an excellent primer in modern, rigorously empirical practices of textual editing. These essays uncover the archaeology of Scott's compositional practice based upon an exhaustive trawl through letters to and by Scott, James Ballantyne, Robert Cadell and others. They also make as much sense as possible of the transition between manuscript and first edition and between the significant printed editions of each text. Along with emendation lists much more extensive than any before in editions of Scott, this extensive apparati represents many hundreds of hours of work by the volume editor, by research assistants and by the general editor.It is the transparency, consistency and boldness of the Edinburgh edition in creating a kind of hyper-socialised text (where so much which was manifestly designed for inclusion and demonstrably lost through error first time around is recovered) which makes it such a courageous example of empirical text editing.these volumes continue the process of the Edinburgh Edition in providing the best textual and annotational maps of Scott-land.The Edinburgh Edition respects Scott the artist by 'restoring' versions of the novels that are not quite what his first readers saw. Indeed, it returns to manuscripts that the printers never handled, as Scott's fiction before 1827 was transcribed before it reached the printshop. Each volume of the Edinburgh edition presents an uncluttered text of one work, followed by an Essay on the Text by the editor of the work, a list of the emendations that have been made to the first edition, explanatory notes and a glossary . The editorial essays are histories of the respective texts. Some of them are almost 100 pages long; when they are put together they constitute a fascinating and lucid account of Scott's methods of compostion and his financial manoeuvres. This edition is for anyone who takes Scott seriously. ISBN 0748605746.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Edinburgh, Scotland; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown; Archibald Constable; John Balantyne, 1820. First edition, 1820. Attractive full speckled calf leather bindings by Sharpe Book-Binder, Warwick (oval label at upper corner front pastedown, volume I), black spine label with circular red volume number, gilt decorated spines, marbled edges, about 7" tall. Half-titles in volumes II and III bound in after title pages. Some expected external wear and rubbing but gilt bright and clear, very minor chips to spine heads, all joints lightly cracked (surface only) but covers very secure, text blocks firm, pages clean, no names or other markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

FIRST EDITION, 1st issue. 3 vols. Half titles. 19thC pink binder's cloth, gilt spines; spines faded to brown. Contemp. ownership inscription of Lillias M. Robertson on leading blanks. A good-plus copy. Todd & Bowden 144Aa.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in boards. "Gerard Brill Jersey City NJ 1886" inked on FEP. Edgewear on spine crown. Bumping on panel corners. Shelfwear on spine and panels. Fading on spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Three volumes, 4 ½ X 7 ¼ inches, dark red leather spine and tips, cloth over boards, raised bands, gilt titles on spine, marbled end papers, matching marbled page edges, 331, 351, 333 pages. The three volumers each has the half title page. Fine. First edition.

Leather. 1st Edition. 3 vols. 331p; 333p; 351p. A set of three hardcover books bound with navy blue leather spines and corners ad marbled boards. Edges and surfaces scuffed and corners lightly bumped. Tiny chip off the top edge of volume 2's front cover. Early owner's signature on each volume's half-title page, dated 1820. Some light foxing inside, most heavily on the endpapers. The first edition of this Waverley novel in three volumes.

Boards. Condition: Very good. First Edition. 3 vols. 1st edition. Original boards and labels, rebacked with new endpapers (a fitting match). Soiled and worn else very good, but troublesome to weigh against other sets, because variables won't and constants aren't. Just after publishing Ivanhoe, Scott returned to his Scottish roots for this novel. The monastery of the title is Saint Mary's Cistercian Abbey and the action is mostly within or surrounding it. The time is the Scottish Reformation (16th century) when the religious question had not been settled, but Scott wrote as the detached narrator, and presents its resolution as inevitable. The characters are (as is the custom in historical romance) a gathering (or a compaction) of real and fictional figures, playing out their personal, petty roles, rendered (and contrasted) against the great events surrounding them, as worldly life goes on, oblivious to all private vicissitudes and recoveries. The only grownup hero, with a marginally objective sense of the times, is the Catholic Benedictine/Cistercian monk, Sub-Prior Eustace (once William Allan) who fights for his lost cause as stubbornly and gallantly, as would Robert E. Lee, 300 years later.

3 vols. 8vo. First edition, second issue, this copy with "attentoin" vol. I, p. 226, last line. 3 vols. 8vo. Todd 144Ab Contemporary green blind-stamped squares, gilt spine, with label on the front pastedown "Bound by W. Forth Book-binder 7 (Stationer) Bridlington" in each volume First edition, second issue, this copy with "attentoin" vol. I, p. 226, last line.

3 volumes. First Edition, with the half-titles as called for. 8vo, bound in the printer's original gray boards, the spines with printed lettering labels as issued. [4], 331; [4], 351; [4], 333 pp. An authentic set from the printer's workshop, the text-blocks all clean and crisp and very well preserved, the original printers boards with wear and evidence of age and use. A set in original state and with normal wear. FIRST EDITION IN THE PRINTER'S ORIGINAL BOARDS. THE MONASTERY is an historical novel by Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels, and is set in the Scottish Borders at Melrose Abbey in the 1550s on the eve of the Reformation. Scott had been contemplating THE MONASTERY before August 1819, and it seems likely that he started writing it in that month while the production of IVANHOE was at a standstill because of shortage of paper. He had determined on the title by the middle of the month. It also seems likely that he took up composition again shortly after finishing Ivanhoe in early November. He made good progress, and the third and final volume was at the press by the end of February 1820. The action is centred on the Monastery of Kennaquhair, probably based on Melrose Abbey in south east Scotland, on the River Tweed. At this time, circa 1550, the Scottish Reformation is just beginning, and the monastery is in peril. In the many conflicts between England and Scotland the property of the Church had hitherto always been respected; but her temporal possessions, as well as her spiritual influence, were now in serious danger from the spread of the doctrines of the Reformation, and the occupants of the monasteries were dependent on the military services of their tenants and vassals for protection against the forays of Protestant barons and other heretical marauders. Dame Elspeth's husband Simon had fallen in the battle of Pinkie (1547), and the hospitality of her lonely tower had been sought by the widow of the Baron of Avenel and her daughter Mary, whose mansion had been seized and plundered by invaders, and subsequently taken possession of by her brother-in-law Julian. While confessing the baroness on her death-bed, Father Philip discovered that she possessed a Bible. And so begins the plot. Scott's landscape descriptions were generally judged excellent, as were the confrontations between the principal characters. The introductory epistles attracted high praise, with only a couple of dissenting voices.

First American Edition. Two volumes; in the publisher's paper covered boards; edges untrimmed; spine labels perished; stained and mended; a good set. Issued anonymously (by the author of Waverley and Ivanhoe), this is a scarce edition, especially in the original binding. Each volume has the book label of 'George Peabody of Salem,' and one volume has his name in ink on the front free endpaper, although the hand is unidentified. This is possibly, but not likely, the famous George Peabody, a successful businessman and philanthropist. While he was from Danvers (at an earlier time, part of Salem), and a nearby town was named for him, most of his life was spent in England. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.