The Lord of The Isles. With all His Introductions, and The Editor's Notes. Illustrated by Numerous Engravings on Wood from Drawings by Birket Foster and John Gilbert.

8vo.(5.25" x 8.125") 367 pp. 1857. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. Full navy blue embossed cloth over beveled boards with gilt and red decoration with lion in shield centered to both boards. Spine with heavy gilt decoration (see pic). All edges gilt. Minor rubbing to extremities, head and foot of spine ruffled with tiny closed tears, corners bumped and rubbed. Small ink notation to head of front pastedown, an embossed bookseller's stamp to first free endpaper. Minimal foxing to first and last few pages, inside appearing relatively clean. Small stamp of binder, Leighton Son & Hodge, to rear pastedown.Illustrated with engraved frontispiece and half-and title page and 70 in-text and full page engravings designed by Birket Foster and John Gilbert, engraved on wood by J.W. Whymper and Edmund Evans, and printed by R. &. R. Clark.

From Wiki: Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSAScot (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 had a major impact on European and American literature.