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SIR WALTER SCOTT's THE ANTIQUARY!

Complete in 3-volumes.

Printed in 1816!!

This set is almost 200 YEARS OLD!!

FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING!!

Bound in leather. 

This is the Original binding from 1816! 

Gilded lettering on spine. 

Marbled boards. 

Large text. 

7''. 

Complete in three volumes, as stated on title page. 

Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh. 1816. FIRST EDITION.

Very Good internally. Hinges slightly starting but all are held firm and strongly attached, and are still supple and fresh. Vol. I has some surface chips, as shown. General rubbing. Interior shows minor foxing. Early armorial bookplate.

This is a beautiful First Edition set.

This would make an excellent gift and/or addition to any library!

A beautiful, true first edition, of this classic novel.

The Antiquary (1816) is a novel by Sir Walter Scott, in which one of the central characters is an amateur historian, archaeologist and collector of items of dubious antiquity. Although the eponymous character, he is not necessarily the hero, as many of the characters around him undergo far more significant journeys or change. Instead, he provides a central figure (and location) for other more exciting characters and events - on which he provides a sardonic commentary. The book is written in the third person so even the narrative does not remain with the antiquary.

This is Scott's gothic novel, redolent with family secrets, stories of hidden treasure and hopeless love, with a mysterious, handsome, young man, benighted aristocracy and a night-time funeral procession to a ruined abbey, no less. But the romance and mystery is counterpoised by some of Scott's more down-to-earth characters, and grittily unromantic events.