SCOTT, SIR WALTER — The Talisman

New York, NY: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1923. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front pastedown page. "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) , Waverley (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 greatly influenced European and American literature. As an advocate and legal administrator by profession, he combined writing and editing with his daily work as Clerk of Session and Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire. He was prominent in Edinburgh's Tory establishment, active in the Highland Society, long time a president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1820–1832) , and a vice president of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1827–1829). [2] 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 on 22 April 1820; the title became extinct upon his son's death in 1847. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .