1880 Rare Victorian Book ~ The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Illustrated.
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(Description)
Author: Sir Walter Scott. Memoir by William Michael Rossetti.
Title: The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Edited, with a Critical Memoir by William Michael Rossetti. With full-page engravings.
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock and Co., no date. (1880).
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7.5" X 5".
Pages: xx-620 pages.
Binding: Near fine full morocco leather binding (hinges fine, overall slightly scuffed) under a protective removable mylar cover. All edges gilt.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the frontispiece portrait and the 7 full-page illustrations.
The book: Attractive and finely bound Victorian 19th-century illustrated edition of Walter Scott's Poems.
The author: Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, FRSE (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and Scottish literature. Famous titles include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Old Mortality, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor.