TALES OF MY LANDLORD, Fourth and Final Series, Collected and Arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham [COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS and CASTLE DANGEROUS]

4 volumes. First edition, the fourth and final series of the subset of the Waverly Novels and containing THE FINAL TWO WAVERLY NOVELS TO BE PUBLISHED. Large paper copy, complete with half-titles in each volume as called for and errata leaves in volumes one and two. 8vo, original printer's pressed paper boards, with original printed paper labels on the spines, edges untrimmed. Now housed in a handsome slipcase with matching chamise of textured garnet paper-covered boards with black morocco label. xliii, 329; 330; 342; 330 pp. An extremely well preserved set in fully original state, the text uncommonly clean and fresh, with barely a hint of fox or mellowing. The paper boards with some expected wear and chipping but solid and tight, extremely uncommon in this kind of fully period original state. RARE IN THIS CONDITION AND STATE. THE FINAL TWO WAVERLY NOVELS. The fourth series of TALES OF MY LANDLORD is comprised of two historical novels; COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS and CASTLE DANGEROUS. The former being the second to last of the Waverley novels. The novel is set in Constantinople at the end of the 11th century, during the build-up to the First Crusade. The final novel, CASTLE DANGEROUS returns to the setting of Scotland and takes place in March of 1307, against the background of the First War of Scottish Independence. The so-called editor of the "LANDLORD" stories, Jedediah Cleishbotham, is another product of Scott's ambitious imagination. According to Scott, he is a "Schoolmaster and Parish-clerk of Gandercleugh." Scott claimed that he had sold the stories to the publishers, and that they had been compiled by fellow schoolmaster Peter Pattieson from tales collected from the landlord of the Wallace Inn at Gandercleugh. This was just as much fiction as the rest of the stories.…