Sir
Walter Scott
Large-Paper
Edition. The Works of Sir Walter Scott Including The Waverley Novels and The
Poems. In Fifty (50) Volumes. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston and New
York. 1912-1913.
Limited to 375 sets printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Number 199.
Each
volume is hand numbered with half-title page hand decorated in color and gilt.
This
is a handsome Ex-Library set with indexing markings on the spines of volumes
46-50 only. Each volume inspected has a library stamp in the upper margin of
the half-title page and the customary card catalog pocket and markings on the
last page and inside-back cover. Some volumes have the library stamp on the top
edge and an occasional indexing mark.
Maroon
cloth, hardback, 9-1/8 inches. Leather label on spine with author, volume number, title and Large Paper
Edition in gilt. Deckle page edges, some uncut pages. Very light
shelf wear, overall very good condition. Illustrated. 50 volumes.
Excerpts
from the Publishers’ Note:
“The
Waverley Novels and the complete poetical writings…The text has been carefully
edited in the light of Scott’s own revisions; all of his own latest notes have
been included, glossaries have been added, and full descriptive notes to the
illustrations have been prepared which will, we hope, add greatly to the reader’s
interest and instruction in the reading of the novels and poems… In the case,
of an author like Sir Walter Scott, the ideal edition requires that the
beautiful and romantic scenery amid which he lived and of which he wrote shall
be adequately presented to the reader… To see Scotland, and to visit in person
all the scenes of the novels and poems, would enable the reader fully to
understand these backgrounds and thereby add materially to his appreciation of
the author…The scenes of the stories extend into nearly every county in
Scotland and through a large part of England and Wales…. In addition to the
photographs, old engravings and paintings have been reproduced for the
illustration of novels having to do with old buildings, streets, etc., which
have long since disappeared. For this material a careful search was made in the
British Museum, the Advocates’ Library and City Museum, Edinburgh, the Library
at Abbotsford, the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, and other collections.
It
has been thought, too, that the ideal edition of Scott’s works would not be
complete without an adequate portrayal of his more memorable characters. This
has been accomplished in a series of frontispieces specially painted for this
edition by twenty of the most distinguished illustrators of England.
…William
Hazlitt said, ‘His works are almost like a new edition of human nature.’
…succeeding
generations will prize them still more highly…
The
format of this edition has been most carefully studied, and represents the use
of the best resources of The Riverside Press.”
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