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Title: The book of Waverley gems: in a series of engraved illustrations of incidents and scenery in Sir Walter Scott's novels.
Description: London: Henry G Bohn, 1862. First edition. 8vo, unpaginated. 32 plates and 32 text illustrations. Original brown cloth, elaborate gilt titling and decoration to front board and spine, all edges gilt. Inner hinges repaired, endpapers and frontispiece foxed, externally a bright copy. Overall in good plus condition. The format of the book is a plate (protected by a tissue) followed by a page of text from one of Walter Scott's novels, followed by another tissue, followed by a vignette illustration with a quote on the same page, followed by another plate (etc).

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