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Walter Scott's Works. Sir Walter Scott. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Brothers. c.1850s. Assumed complete set in four volumes with uniform half leather bindings measuring 9.5 x 6.25", 8vos. Vol. I Vol. II Vol. III Vol. IV In fair condition. Half leather boards scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Heads and tails of spines rubbed/bumped. Front and rear gutters in Vols. 1, 2, & 4 cracked or starting. Bindings otherwise intact. Front and rear paste-downs/end-pages with offsetting from binding. Text-blocks toned with foxing and age spots throughout. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels Ivanhoe (1819), Rob Roy (1817), Waverly (1814), Old Mortality (1816), The Heart of Mid-Lothian (1818), and The Bride of Lammermoor (1819) , along with the narrative poems Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810). He had a major impact on European and American literature. His knowledge of history and literary facility equipped him to establish the historical novel genre as an exemplar of European Romanticism. He became a baronet of Abbotsford in the County of Roxburgh, Scotland, on 22 April 1820; the title became extinct upon his son's death in 1847. Assumed complete set in four volumes. FORN-SHELF-0454-BB-2503-BH83
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