Tales of the Crusaders. In four volumes. [Volumes I & II:] The Betrothed. [and Volumes III & IV:] The Talisman.

  • [Scott, Sir Walter]
  • Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. 1825
  • Todd & Bowden 181A.

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FIRST EDITION, 4 vols., pp. [iv], xxviii, 327, [1]; [iv], 355, [1]; [iv], 325, [1]; [iv], 364. Half calf, marbled boards, spines divided by raised bands with double gilt rules, red morocco labels lettered in gilt, central thistle tooled in blind to other compartments, edges sprinkled red. Some spotting and toning. Bindings a little rubbed to extremities and boards. Modern bookplates of Ian A. MacDonald to front pastedowns.

Notes

The first edition of Scott's Tales of the Crusaders, the 20th instalment of the Waverley novels, still published without attribution. In the introduction to these four volumes, Scott lays out a fictional meeting of 'literary characters of eminence' who go on to discuss the absurd assumption by the public that all those books 'could be the work of one hand'.

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