1861 Life of Sir Walter Scott by John Gibson Lockhart, 9 Volumes

Description: Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott by John Gibson Lockhart, New Edition, 9 Volumes, Ticknor and Fields, Boston, 1861, hardcover, 5 x 7.5”, 12mo Fair condition. Wear and soiling to boards. All tips show some level of bumping. Embossed illustration on front and rear boards; gilt remains only on volumes I and II. Library catalog stickers on spines. Titles in gilt on spines. Spines of volume I, V, IX are chipped. Bookplate for the Maryland Diocesan Library Lending Department on front pastedown of all volumes. Frontispiece in all volumes. Toning, age-staining, and foxing throughout textblocks. No known marginalia. Please see photos. Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 - 21 September 1832) was a Scottish novelist, poet, and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels Ivanhoe (1819), Rob Roy (1817), Waverley (1814), Old Mortality (1816), The Heart of Mid-Lothian (1818), and The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), along with the narrative poems Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810). He had a major impact on European and American literature. As an advocate, judge, and legal administrator by profession, he combined writing and editing with his daily work as Clerk of Session and Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire. He was prominent in Edinburgh's Tory establishment, active in the Highland Society, long time a president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1820-1832), and a vice president of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1827-1829). His knowledge of history and literary facility equipped him to establish the historical novel genre as an exemplar of European Romanticism. He became a baronet of Abbotsford in the County of Roxburgh, Scotland, on 22 April 1820; the title became extinct upon his son's death in 1847. FORN-SHELF-0534-BB-2408-JC1208

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