Author: SCOTT, SIR WALTER
Title: The Heart of Midlothian (in Maroon Leatherette Covers, Everyman's Library #134)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, [c.1906]. First Edition Thus. Flexible Leatherette. An undated, likely First Everyman's Library edition [c.1906] of Sir Walter Scott's historical novel, the seventh in his Waverley series. Chiefly set in Edinburgh, the story is set against the Porteous Riots of 1736. With a brief editor's introduction and glossary of archaic terms at rear of volume. Entry 134 in Everyman's Library Fiction series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In Everyman's style 1 maroon flexible leatherette variant binding with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt titling & floral decorations to cover and spine, ornate Knowles woodcut illustrations to title and frontis pages and to endpapers, top edge gilt, fragile sewn-in silk ribbon placemarker and rounded corners of leaves. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- A Good-only copy, with yellowed transparent tape applied to spine ends, loosened hinges, previous owner's inked info. to front endsheet, some scuffing to leather at head of spine, otherwise an attractive, sound copy.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); x, 559 pages. Good with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Everyman's Library Editions
Title: The Heart of Midlothian (in Maroon Leatherette Covers, Everyman's Library #134)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, [c.1906]. First Edition Thus. Flexible Leatherette. An undated, likely First Everyman's Library edition [c.1906] of Sir Walter Scott's historical novel, the seventh in his Waverley series. Chiefly set in Edinburgh, the story is set against the Porteous Riots of 1736. With a brief editor's introduction and glossary of archaic terms at rear of volume. Entry 134 in Everyman's Library Fiction series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In Everyman's style 1 maroon flexible leatherette variant binding with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt titling & floral decorations to cover and spine, ornate Knowles woodcut illustrations to title and frontis pages and to endpapers, top edge gilt, fragile sewn-in silk ribbon placemarker and rounded corners of leaves. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- A Good-only copy, with yellowed transparent tape applied to spine ends, loosened hinges, previous owner's inked info. to front endsheet, some scuffing to leather at head of spine, otherwise an attractive, sound copy.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); x, 559 pages. Good with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Everyman's Library Editions
Price: US$ 18.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 86601
- Book number: 86601