A finely bound collection of The Waverley Novels by Sir Walter Scott.<ul><li>Sold as a set 48 volumes.</li><li>Sir Walter Scott (Scottish).</li><li>Edinburgh:&nbsp;Adam and Charles Black,&nbsp;1877-1879.&nbsp;</li><li>Small Octavos.</li><li>Bound in half red leather and marbled paper boards by Estes &amp; Lauriat, with their stamp, paneling, gilt decoration and gilt lettering to spines, top edges of text blocks gilt, with marbled endpapers. Age toning throughout text blocks.</li></ul>

The Waverley Novels

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Fine%2520Bindings%2520and%2520Sets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> set of the Waverley Novels by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Sir+Walter+Scott&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sir Walter Scott</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 48 volumes</li><li>Sir Walter Scott (Scottish).</li><li>Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1841.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>All volumes with additional engraved pictorial titles and frontispieces.</li><li>Bound in original black morocco, gilt decoration and lettering, large armorial arms on boards (both relating to Scott, with motto “Reparabit cornua Phoebe” (the moon shall fill her horns again), “Watch weel”); spines tooled with decorations including the Scottish thistle and Lion Rampant, all edges gilt.</li></ul> The Waverley Novels&nbsp;is&nbsp;a series of more than two dozen historical novels published by&nbsp;the Scottish author, poet and historian&nbsp;Sir Walter Scott&nbsp;(1771 – 1832)&nbsp;between 1814 and 1832.&nbsp;Notwithstanding the popularity of the novels at the time of publication Scott only publicly revealed his authorship in 1827. Some of the notable works included in the series include&nbsp;Waverley (1814), Guy Mannering (1815), Rob Roy (1817), The Heart of Midlothian (1818), Ivanhoe (1819), Kenilworth (1821), Quentin Durward (1823), and Redgauntlet (1824). Some of the novels were originally published in a four-part series titled Tales of My Landlord.&nbsp;All the stories were published together in&nbsp;this&nbsp;48-volume series called Waverley Novels (1829–33), containing Scott’s prefaces and final revisions but completed after his death. The series influenced generations of writers and earned Scott his reputation as the founder of the historical novel genre.&nbsp;This complete 48 volume set is beautifully bound in a black morocco armorial binding with an extensive and exquisite gilt decoration. The two mottos related to Scott – “Reparabit cornua Phoebe” and “Watch weel” – appear on scrolls that surround the coat of arms of Scott, the crest of which is made up by a woman in Elizabethan costume holding in her hands a sun in splendor and a crescent moon. Please note: This item is excluded from complimentary shipping. Shipping quote will be calculated at time of purchase.

Waverley Novels

A second edition of Waverley by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Sir+Walter+Scott&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sir Walter Scott</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3 volumes.</li><li>Walter Scott (Scottish).</li><li>Waverley, or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since.</li><li>Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co., 1814.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Second Edition.</li><li>Bound in the original boards with half-titles, edges untrimmed, housed in a cloth clamshell over blue paper sides, in the style of the original binding.</li></ul> A rare survival in the original grey-paper covered boards. Published anonymously in 1814, this second edition followed shortly after and still did not reveal the author's name. It was Scott's first venture into prose fiction and is widely accepted as the first historical novel.

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