SCOTT, Walter (1771-1832). Waverley; or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1814.
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SCOTT, Walter (1771-1832). Waverley; or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1814.

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SCOTT, Walter (1771-1832). Waverley; or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1814.

First edition of ‘the archetype of the historical novel’ (PMM). ‘The success of all the ‘Waverley Novels’ was instantaneous, not only in England and Scotland but also in the United States where pirated editions, and in Europe where German and French translations, swamped the market’. PMM 273; Todd and Bowden, 77a.

3 volumes, 12mo (170 x 102mm). Half-titles (vol. I with repair in title and marginal tear in D11, a few light stains). Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, black leather spine labels lettered in gilt (lightly rubbed, spine labels possibly renewed); all housed in a modern quarter morocco box. Provenance: Michael Sharpe (book label in box).
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