Sir Walter Scott; Victor Hugo — Ivanhoe & Notre Dame

London, Thomas Nelson & Sons, c1910. Cloth. Two smart copies of these very scarce editions of works from Sir Walter Scott and Victor Hugo, as part of Nelson's Sixpenny Classics series. Two volumes. Scarce edition. T. Nelson & Sons' Sixpenny Classics series. This set includes: Ivanhoe. With a frontispiece. A historical novel set in England in the Middle Ages, with colourful descriptions of a tournament, outlaws, a witch trial, and divisions between Jews and Christians, Normans and Saxons. Written by Sir Walter Scott, a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Notre-Dame. With a frontispiece. A Gothic novel following the unfortunate story of Quasimodo, the Roma street dancer Esmeralda and Quasimodo's guardian the Archdeacon Claude Frollo in fifteenth-century Paris. Written by Victor-Marie Hugo, a French Romantic writer and politician. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor fading to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrappers are smart with light wear and minor chipping to the extremities. Sunning to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot and minor age toning to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscription to the front pastedown and a pencil drawing to the rear pastedown of Ivanhoe. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.