Sir Walter Scott was a Scottish playwright, poet, and novelist. His famous titles include Rob Roy, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian, The Bride of Lammermoor, and Ivanhoe. His works were extremely popular during his lifetime and he was the first English-language author to achieve international acclaim.
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Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne for Longman, Hurst…, 1815. Third Edition. Read More Item Details for Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. By the Author of “Waverley” Add to Wish List
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Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1877. "Immediately after Hardy’s death his books and papers were subjected to the critical scrutiny of Sydney Cockerell, notable bibliophile and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, whom Hardy had appointed, jointly with Florence Hardy, as his literary executor. Cockerell had Max Gate bookplates made and..... Read More Item Details for The Waverley Novels. Vol. 1. Waverley Add to Wish List
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Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1876. Inscribed on ffep of Volume One: "Mr. John T. Terry/ with the compliments of/his friend/ E.D. Morgan/ New York January/1st 1881." This is Edwin Denoison Morgan 1811-1883, Governor of New York inscribing to his colleague/banker John Taylor Terry (1822-1913) In 1841, Terry moved to..... Read More Item Details for The Waverley Novels Add to Wish List
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Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Hugh Maxwell, No. 25, North Second-Street, 1805. First American edition and the first work of Scott's published in America. The first American edition listed by NCBEL was published in Philadelphia in 1806. The first American edition and the first work of Scott's published in America..... Read More Item Details for The Lay of the Last Minstrel, a Poem Add to Wish List
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Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co [Printed by James Ballantyne and Co], 1824. First edition. Read More Item Details for St. Ronan's Well Add to Wish List
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London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. Copy number 12 from a deluxe edition of 50 specially bound copies. Read More Item Details for Harriet & Mary, being the relations between Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harriet Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Thomas Jefferson Hogg as shown in letters between them, now published for the first time Add to Wish List
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np: [ca.1824]. Scott's biographical sketches were first published as prefaces to Ballantynes Novelist's Library (1821-4, 10 vols.). Robert Bage's novels Mount Henneth (1781), Barham Downs (1784), and James Wallace (1792) were published in vol. IX, 1824. Reading in part: "[Bage's] whole efforts are turned to the development of human character..... Read More Item Details for Manuscript fragment of biographical portrait of English novelist Robert Bage (1730-1801) Add to Wish List
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Edinburgh: Archibald Consatble, 1821-1826. First editions. Read More Item Details for Kenilworth, A Romance (3 volumes), 1821; Peveril of the Peak (4 Volumes), 1822; The Fortunes of Nigel (3 volumes), 1822; Woodstock; or the Cavalier, A Tale (3 volumes) 1826 Add to Wish List
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Edinburgh: 18th September 1830. Cadell was Walter Scott's longtime publisher, first in partnership with Archibald Constable, and later on his own, most notably producing an edition of the Waverly novels with illustrations by J.M.W. Turner. Read More Item Details for Check signed ("Walter Scott'), in the amount of £12, to Robert Cadell Esq Bookseller Add to Wish List
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New York: Van Winkle and Wiley, 1815. First American edition. This first of the famous Waverley Novels was published anonymously, and Scott did not officially acknowledge writing it until the 1820s. With this novel, Scott virtually invented a new literary form, leaving behind the extreme artificiality of the Gothic novel..... Read More Item Details for Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since … Three Volumes in Two Add to Wish List
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Edinburgh: vd. 2. Tales of My Landlord, Second Series. 4 volumes. Edinburgh: Constable, 1818 3. Tales of My Landlord, Third Series, collected and Arranged by Jedeiah Cleisbotham, 4 volumes. Edinburgh printed for Archibald Constable, 1819 4.Tales of My Landlord, Fourth and Last Series, Collected and Arranged by Jedediah Cleisbotham. 4..... Read More Item Details for Collection of Early Editions including Tales of My Landlord, Fourth Edition 1818 Add to Wish List
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Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne & Co. for Archibald Constable, 1815. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Field of Waterloo; a Poem Add to Wish List
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Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1855. Foster, Birket. Read More Item Details for Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field. With all His Introductions and the Editor's Notes Add to Wish List
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Edinburgh: James Ballantyne, 1826. First edition, first state, without half-titles. With the contemporary signature of Mich. Susan Becher May 1826 on each tile-page. Read More Item Details for Woodstock; or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one. By the author of "Waverley, Tales of the Crusaders," &c Add to Wish List
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n.p: 26 April, [1828. Written relatively late in Scott's life (he would die at the age of 61 in 1832), Scott was furiously writing himself out of debt after being publicly ruined after the financial crash of the Ballantyne printing business, in which he was heavily invested. Read More Item Details for Autograph note signed in the third person, April 26, [1828], regretting that he cannot attend an event as he will be at the Royal Academy on the same day Add to Wish List
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[Boston: Published by Ticknor and Fields, 1857]. With “Wm. Howard Taft Sept. 1873” on the blank at front with a notation underneath “A reward for carelessness.” This would have been his last year at Woodword High School in Cincinnati prior to his admission to Yale. Read More Item Details for Waverley Add to Wish List
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Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne & Co. for Archibald Constable .. 1815. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Field of Waterloo; a Poem Add to Wish List
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Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne & Co. for Archibald Constable…, 1815. First Edition, with half-title. Read More Item Details for The Field of Waterloo; a Poem Add to Wish List
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Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Company for William Blackwood, Edinburgh: and T. Cadell, Strand, London, 1826. Second edition of the first two Letters, First edition of the Third Letter. “In this series of ‘Letters’ defending the issuance of Scottish banknotes Scott benefits from his work on Swift by patterning..... Read More Item Details for A Letter to the Editor of the Edinburgh Weekly Journal from Malachi Malagrowther, Esq. on the Proposed Change of Currency and Other Late Alterations, as They Affect, or are Intended to Affect, the Kingdom of Scotland [With:] A Second Letter … [And:] A Third Letter … Add to Wish List
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Edinburgh: Arch. Constable, 1821. Each volume with a fine early fore-edge painting of a Scottish scene identified in an old hand in block letters on the ffep. Volume I : Berwick-on-Tweed Volume II : Falkland Palace Volume III : Edinburgh Castle Volume IV : Barnborough Castle Volume V : Hollyrood..... Read More Item Details for The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet Add to Wish List
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Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co, 1822. First edition, with half titles. First state, with “their” at the end of line 20 on p. 17, Vol. II. Read More Item Details for The Pirate Add to Wish List
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London Printed. New York: Reprinted for Ezra Sargeant, 1810. First American Edition. This early, interesting volume of the celebrated Quarterly Review is notable for the essay on Nelson by Robert Southey at pp. 218-262, reviewing four biographies. Southey wrote to Charles Danvers, 14 December 1809: “Yesterday I received a letter..... Read More Item Details for The Quarterly Review. February & May 1810. Vol. III [Nos. V-VI] Add to Wish List
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New York: J. & J. Harper, 1830. First American edition. Read More Item Details for The Doom of Devorgoil. A Melo-drama. Auchindrane; or, The Ayreshire Tragedy Add to Wish List
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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1857-1859. Household edition. The condition of this set is as nice as you are going to see. It has been stored in a Warehouse since 1918. Read More Item Details for Waverley Novels. Household Edition Add to Wish List
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