Sir Walter Scott — Waverley; or, &Apos;Tis Sixty Years Since

Edinburgh, Archibald Constable and Co; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814. Leather. The second edition of the best known work of Sir Walter Scott, his first foray into historical fiction. The second edition, published very shortly after the first.Complete in three volumes.Bound without half-titles.The first novel in Scott's 'Waverley' series.'Waverley' was Scott's first adventure into historical literature, and has been widely acknowledged as one of the first pieces of historical fiction. The novel begins at the outset of the 1745 Jacobite Uprising, with the protagonist, Edward Waverley, joining the army, a romantic young man who finds himself in the midst of staunch loyalist supporters.Sir Walter Scott is best known today for his novels and poetry, including 'Ivanhoe' and 'The Lady of the Lake&apos. He wrote a lot about his birthplace of Scotland, though with his experiments in historical fiction, he expanded to writing about various places in England and Europe. In a half morocco binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, worn. Front boards of Volumes I and II are detached but present. Loss and lifting to the backstrips of Volumes I and II, a smaller amount of loss to the spine of Volume III. Rubbing to the boards and spines. Bumping to the extremities. Rear joint of Volume I is starting but firm. Crack to the rear joint of Volumes II and III, and to the front joint of Volume III. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with scattered spots. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .