The Waverley Album: Containing Fifty-One Line Engravings to Illustrate The Novels and Tales of Sir Walter Scott. Engraved by Charles Heath, Finden, C. Rolls, Portbury, &c. from Pictures by Leslie Howard, Stothard, Cooper, Brockedon, Wright, &c. &c.

  • (Scott, Walter)
  • London: Published for Charles Heath 1840

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8vo, pp. [ii], ii, iii, [i], ff. 50 + frontispiece and 50 plates. Later half calf, green cloth boards, spine divided by raised bands gilt, green morocco label, other compartments tooled in gilt. A little spotting, some tissue-guards lost. A little rubbed, some wear to spine-ends. Inscription to flyleaf: ‘to Anne Juliana Storey from her sincere friend J.W., January 2nd 1843’.

Notes

The 50 illustrations cover the Waverley novels up to and including 1823's 'Quentin Durward'; the frontispiece is the engraved title-page from a similar publication, 'The Waverley Keepsake', complete with that title retained.

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