The Collected Works of Sir Walter Scott & Lockhardt's Life of Scott; Includes The Waverley Novels (complete in 48 volumes); The Poetical Works of Scott (complete in 12 volumes); The Life of Scott (complete in 10 volumes); The Prose Works of Scott (incomplete, first 21 of 28 volumes)
Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1841. Second Edition thus. The Waverley Novels (complete 48 volumes) : uniformly bound in debossed cloth (except Vol XL which is a slightly different colour of cloth) : all volumes except the XLth published in Edinburgh 1841 by Robert Cadell with extra vignette titles published 1829 - 1833. The XLth volume (Woodstock II) is published by Adam and Charles Black in 1842 without the extra vignette title. Waverley (I & II); Guy Mannering (III & IV); The Antiquary (V & VI); Rob Roy (VII & VIII); Black Dwarf and Old Mortality (IX); Old Mortality (cont.) (X) Old Mortality and the Heart of Midlothian (Xi); The Heart of Midlothian (cont.) (XII); The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor (XIII); The Bride of Lammermoor (XIV); A Legend of Montrose (XV); Ivanhoe (XVI & XVII); Monastery (XVIII & XIX); Abbot (XX & XXI); Kenilworth (XXII & XXIII); Pirate (XXIV & XXV); Nigel (XXVI & XXVII); Peveril of the Peak (XXVIII-XXX); Quentin Durward (XXXI- XXXII); St. Ronan's Well (XXXIII & XXXIV); Red Gauntlet (XXXV & XXXVI); The Betrothed ( XXXVII); The Talisman (XXXVIII); Woodstock (XXXIX & XL); Highland Widow, &c, (XLI); Fair Maid of Perth (XLII & XLIII); Anne of Geierstein (XLIV & XLV); Count Robert of Paris (XLVI & XLVII); Castle Dangerous, The Surgeon's Daughter, Glossary (XLVIII).
The Poetical Works of Scott (complete in 12 volumes) : uniformly bound in debossed cloth and published in Edinburgh in 1848 by Robert Cadell : Minstrelsy (I - IV); Sir Tristrem (V); Lay of the Lost Minstrel (VI); Marmion (VII); Lady of the Lake &c. (VIII); Rokeby; Mr. Roderick (IX); Lord of the Isles &c. (X); Triermain (XI); Dramas (XII).
Prose works (incomplete in 21 volumes) : uniformly bound in debossed cloth and published in Edinburgh 1848-49 by Robert Cadell : Life of Dryden (I); Life of Swift (II); Biographies I&II (III,IV); Paul's Letters &C. (V); Chivalry, Romance, The Drama (VI); Provincial Antiquities (VII); Life of Napoleon (VIII-XVI); Periodical Criticism (XVII-XXI) : LACKS v. 22-28, Tales of a Grandfather.
Life of Scott (complete in 10 volumes) : uniformly bound in debossed cloth and published in Edinburgh in 1848 by Robert Cadell.
Overall a good collection, mostly clean throughout but with foxing in various degrees to many of the engravings; cloth bindings of the Life of Scott remain green but the rest have faded to brown. Good. Item #2321
An earlier owner (Robert Alfred Rackham) wrote the following slightly peevish note by way of explanation on the front paste-down of the 40th volume of the Waverley novels, "A rascal at Aylsham having stolen the XLth volume of my set in 1859 I got this in its place the engravings are not on steel as in lost vol."
This collection came from Lord Lothian's library at Ferniehirst Castle and was a private gift to the previous owner.
Price: $1,500.00