Waverly Novels : Woodstock : volumes XXXIX. & XL.

Waverly Novels. Woodstock volumes XXXIX. & XL. 2 novels complete, from a set of 42

Author: Scott, Sir Walter

12mo.( 4" x 6.125") 2 volumes complete. 1832. Scott, Sir Walter. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell. Half tan polished calf with small corners, blindstamp rule to all leather edges, over marbled boards. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt title/vol# on gilt rule bordered black leather to second compartment, all over blindstamp crosshatched pattern to all other compartments. All edges speckled red. Edgewear, corners rubbed, with tiny loss. Covers rubbed, with small loss of color (see pic). Craquelure to spine leather (see pic). Prior owners name/date neatly to front pastedown. Vol II evidently lacking a blank rear free flyleaf. Engraved frontispiece and title page to each volume. A pretty set of books.

From Wiki: Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSAScot (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish historian, novelist, poet, and playwright. 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. Scott was known for his fondness of dogs, and owned several throughout his life. Upon his death, one newspaper noted "of all the great men who have loved dogs no one ever loved them better or understood them more thoroughly". The best known of Scott's dogs were Maida, a large stag hound, and Spice, a Dandie Dinmont terrier described as having asthma, to which Scott gave particular care. In a diary entry written at the height of his financial woes, Scott described dismay at the prospect of having to sell them: "The thoughts of parting from these dumb creatures have moved me more than any of the reflections I have put down".

Also from Wiki: Woodstock, or The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one (1826) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. Set just after the English Civil War, it was inspired by the legend of the Good Devil of Woodstock, which in 1649 supposedly tormented parliamentary commissioners who had taken possession of a royal residence at Woodstock, Oxfordshire. The story deals with the escape of Charles II in 1652, during the Commonwealth, and his final triumphant entry into London on 29 May 1660. The first edition of Woodstock was published in Edinburgh by Archibald Constable and Co. and Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green in London on 28 April 1826. As with all the Waverley novels before 1827 publication was anonymous. The price was one and a half guineas (£1 11s 6d or £1.57½.). Scott does not seems to have revisited the novel until the spring of 1831 when he revised the text and provided an introduction and notes for the 'Magnum' edition, in which it appeared as Volumes 39 and 40 in August and September 1832.

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