The Works of Sir Walter Scott, Including The Waverley Novels and The Poems.
"Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep": Finely Bound Set of The Works of Walter Scott
The Works of Sir Walter Scott, Including The Waverley Novels and The Poems.
SCOTT, Walter.
$4,000.00
Item Number: 56742
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912.
Finely bound complete set of the Works of Sir Walter Scott. Octavo, 50 volumes, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. In fine condition. An exceptional set.
"Scotts influence as a novelist was incalculable; he established the form of the historical novel, and the form of the short story" (Drabble, 879).