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		<title>Superb Folio Society Collection</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently Purchased &#8211; A Superb Folio Society Collection Having recently purchased a significant Folio Society collection I will be listing these over the next few days. This superb collection put together over many decades has the following superb library sets; Anthony Trollope Complete 49 Volumes Folio Society 1981-99 Jane Austen Complete 7 Volume Collection Folio [...]]]></description>
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<p>Having recently purchased a significant  Folio Society collection I will be listing these over the next few days.<br />
This superb collection put together over many decades has the following superb library sets;</p>
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<p>Anthony Trollope Complete 49 Volumes Folio Society 1981-99<br />
Jane Austen Complete 7 Volume Collection Folio Society 1975<br />
Bronte Sisters Complete 8 Volume Folio Society Collection 1966-71<br />
Jeeves and Wooster Wodehouse 3 Volume Boxed Set Folio Society 2010<br />
Charles Dickens Complete 16 Volume Folio Society Collection 1981-88<br />
Thomas Hardy 13 Volume Folio Society Collection 1975-97<br />
William Shakespeare Complete 37 Volumes 1959-76</p>
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<p>Plus many superb individual volumes.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue;">View them now at <a href=" http://www.hcbooksonline.com/folio-society/cat_14.html" target="_blank">Folio Society Books</a> For Sale</span></p>
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		<title>Free Books Giveaway in Leeds July 2013</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free Books Giveaway in Leeds July 2013 The date has now been set for The Free Books Giveaway in Leeds in aid of the Leeds Sunshine and Smiles group that provides help and support for both the children and the parents and relatives with children that have been born with Down Syndrome. Date of the [...]]]></description>
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<p>The date has now been set for The Free Books Giveaway in Leeds in aid of the Leeds Sunshine and Smiles group that provides help and support for both the children and the parents and relatives with children that have been born with Down Syndrome.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: blue;">Date of the Event:</span> Saturday 13th July 2013</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: blue;">Venue:</span> Immaculate Heart Of Mary Church Hall, Harrogate Road, Leeds, LS17 6LE</strong></p>
<p>The books are <strong><span style="color: blue;">FREE</span></strong> but we will be asking for a minimum donation of £1 at entry.</p>
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		<title>World Acclaimed Artist John A Blakey&#8217;s First Story Book</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Exquisitely Illustrated Tale Lundravar The Dragon by John A Blakey John Blakey is one of the world’s great watercolour artists, superbly demonstrated in this his first exquisitely illustrated story. A superb fable, this is an epic story of Good and Evil. There are two further books forthcoming in this series. &#160; A tale of [...]]]></description>
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<h1><span style="color: blue;">Lundravar The Dragon </span></h1>
<h1><span style="color: blue;">by John A Blakey</span></h1>
<p>John Blakey is one of the world’s great watercolour artists, superbly demonstrated in this his first exquisitely illustrated story. A superb fable, this is an epic story of Good and Evil. There are two further books forthcoming in this series.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p>
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<p>A tale of a lost little dragon who hatches from his egg many centuries after all of the dragons have been vanquished from the world.<br />
Lundravar the dragon is a charming tale of a journey of discovery, of love and hate, joy and disappointment and of being lost and being found.<br />
His adventures bring him into contact with wonderful characters, who help him discover his true self and the terrible truth of his past.<br />
Alone as the first and last of the great fire-dragons, he has to face a heart-breaking decision: should he remain alone for ever, or give up his powers and resign himself to mortality and happiness?<br />
A truly wonderful fairy tale for children and adults alike.<br />
This beautiful book is now available in three glorious editions;</p>
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<p>Publisher Wee Hills, Cootehill, County Cavan, Ireland; 2008</p>
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<p>Publisher Harvest Moon, Killeshandra, Ireland; 2010</p>
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Publisher Harvest Moon, Killeshandra, Ireland; 2009<br />
The superb exclusive Special Edition. Each volume contains over 100 exquisite full colour illustrations and is printed on fine quality paper. It is beautifully hand-bound in rich Italian leather and decorated with polished turquoise set in silver and tooled and edged in gold. Each copy is certificated by the publishers (strictly 650 worldwide) and signed and numbered by the artist and author, John Blakey.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Appreciation of Sir Walter Scott Part VI – The Waverley Novels continued The Pirate The novel is set in Orkney and Shetland in 1689, the plot hinges on an illicit relationship, and is driven by dark men twisted by their criminality, an obsessed woman searching for her lost son, and the murderous rivalry of [...]]]></description>
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<h3><span style="color: blue;">Part VI – The Waverley Novels continued</span></h3>
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<p><span style="color: blue;"><strong>The Pirate </strong></span><br />
The novel is set in Orkney and Shetland in 1689, the plot hinges on an illicit relationship, and is driven by dark men twisted by their criminality, an obsessed woman searching for her lost son, and the murderous rivalry of two young men – a family tale which illustrates the uses and abuses of traditional lore, as well as Scott&#8217;s extraordinary grasp of the literature of the north.<br />
Scott draws heavily on the diary he kept on his tour round the lighthouses of Scotland in 1814. In both the diary and the novel he weighs the real need to improve the agricultural methods of this barely subsistence economy against the force of tradition and the human cost of rapid change.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue;"><strong>The Fortunes of Nigel</strong></span><br />
Set at the end of the reign of James VI and I, The Fortunes of Nigel sits among Walter Scott&#8217;s richest creations in political insight, range of characterisation and linguistic virtuosity.<br />
Well versed in the political literature of the period, Scott drew a detailed picture of London in the early 17th century while charting the effects of Scottish influx into the English capital: the ambitions and fears of the incomers and the suspicion they aroused. The complex web of political (and sexual) intrigue, and especially of all-important financial dealings and double-dealings, is traced with a master&#8217;s hand.<br />
No Scott novel has a more memorable cast of characters. King James heads them, with his childish irresponsibility and elusive character: a would-be Solomon and father of his country, theological disputant, prurient bisexual. But not far behind are jeweller George Heriot, clockmaker Davie Ramsay, courtier Sir Mungo Malagrowther, servant Richie Moniplies and many vivid minor characters.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Peveril of the Peak</strong></span><br />
Sir Geoffrey Peveril, an old Cavalier, and Major Bridgenorth, a fanatical Puritan, are neighboring landowners in Derbyshire, and though of widely different opinions and modes of life, have been connected by ties of reciprocal kindness in the days of the Civil War. Julian, the son of Sir Geoffrey, and Alice, the daughter of Bridgenorth, are deeply in love. The revival of bitter political feeling during the period of the &#8216;Popish plot&#8217; brings the parents into acute conflict. The author draws elaborate portraits of Charles II and Buckingham, and gives glimpses of Titus Oates, Colonel Blood and Sir Geoffrey Hudson.</p>
<p>&#8216;Here is a plot without a drop of blood; and all the elements of a romance, without its conclusion&#8217;, comments the King towards the end of Scott&#8217;s longest, and arguably most intriguing, novel. Set against the backdrop of the Popish Plot to overturn Charles II, Peveril of the Peak explores the on-going tensions between Cavalier and Puritan loyalties during the fraught years of Restoration England.</p>
<p>Ranging from Derbyshire to the Isle of Man and culminating in London, it is a novel which interweaves political intrigue, personal responsibilities and the ways in which the forces of history are played out in the struggles of individual human lives. But its true subject is perhaps the role of narration and the limits of storytelling itself.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Quentin Durward</strong></span><br />
Quentin Durward is a young Scotsman seeking fame and fortune in the France of Louis XI in the fifteenth century. He knows little and understands less, but Scott represents his ignorance and naiveté as useful to &#8216;the most sagacious prince in Europe&#8217; who needs servants motivated solely by the desire for coin and credit and lacking any interest in France which would interfere with the execution of his political aims. In Quentin Durward Scott studies the first modern state in the process of destroying the European feudal system.</p>
<p>By far the most important of Scott&#8217;s sources for Quentin Durward is the splendid Memoirs of Philippe de Comines. Comines, who has more than a walk-on role in the novel itself, was trusted councillor of Charles the Bold of Burgundy until 1472, when Louis XI persuaded him to enter his service. Scott&#8217;s contrasting portraits of Louis and Charles, crafty king and fiery duke, essentially derives from Comines, whose memoirs are generally regarded as the first example of modern analytical history rather than chronicle. But it is as story that Quentin Durward succeeds, and it is one of Scott&#8217;s most absorbing tales.</p>
<p><em>An Appreciation of Sir Walter Scott in Ten Parts</em><br />
<a href="http://www.hcbooksonline.com/blog/?p=844" target="_blank">Part I – Walter Scott, A Short Biography</a><br />
<a href="http://www.hcbooksonline.com/blog/?p=855" target="_blank">Part II – Scott The Poet.</a><br />
<a href="http://www.hcbooksonline.com/blog/?p=890" target="_blank">Part III – The Waverley Novels, Introduction and The First Four Novels; Waverley (1814), Guy Mannering, The Antiquary and Rob Roy</a><br />
<a href="http://www.hcbooksonline.com/blog/?p=904" target="_blank">Part IV- The Waverley Novels continued (The Black Dwarf, Old Mortality, Heart of Midlothian, Bride of Lammermoor, Legend of Montrose)</a><br />
<a href="http://www.hcbooksonline.com/blog/?p=934" target="_blank">Part V – The Waverley Novels continued (Ivanhoe, The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth)</a><br />
Part VI &#8211; The Waverley Novels continued (The Pirate, The Fortunes of Nigel, Peveril of the Peak, Quentin Durward )<br />
Parts VII-VIII &#8211; The Waverley Novels. (Coming Soon)<br />
Part IX – Locations Associated with Sir Walter Scott. (Coming Soon)<br />
Part X – Short Bibliography including Editions of The Waverley Novels. (Coming Soon)</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Latest Purchases in Local History Purchased this week a superb Local History Collection as follows; Yorkshire Past &#38; Present Mackenzie 4 volumes Outline of History H G Wells Newnes 2 volumes A Bibliography of Municipal History Leicester 1966 The Development Of Modern France Brogan 1959 White&#8217;s Leeds 1853 David &#38; Charles 1969 The Anarchists Joll [...]]]></description>
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<p>Purchased this week a superb Local History Collection as follows;</p>
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<li>Yorkshire Past &amp; Present Mackenzie 4 volumes</li>
<li>Outline of History H G Wells Newnes 2 volumes</li>
<li>A Bibliography of Municipal History Leicester 1966</li>
<li>The Development Of Modern France Brogan 1959</li>
<li>White&#8217;s Leeds 1853 David &amp; Charles 1969</li>
<li>The Anarchists Joll Methuen 1979</li>
<li>Jeremy Bentham&#8217;s Economic Writings Stark 1952 3 volumes</li>
<li>A History of The County Of Oxford Volume IV 1979</li>
<li>Bath Neale Routledge Kegan Paul 1981</li>
<li>Victorian Exeter Leicester 1968</li>
<li>A History of Hull Macmahon Oxford 1980</li>
<li>Mayalls Annals of Yorkshire C H Johnson 3 Volumes</li>
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<p>This superb collection will be listed over the next two weeks</p>
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<p><span style="color: blue;"><strong> Ivanhoe </strong></span><br />
Ivanhoe, a trusted ally of Richard-The-Lion-Hearted, returns from the Crusades to reclaim the inheritance his father denied him. He defends Rebecca, a vibrant, beautiful Jewish woman, against a charge of witchcraft &#8211; but it is Lady Rowena who is his true love. What happens when he teams up with Robin Hood, brings chivalrous romance to high adventure.<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><strong> The Monastery </strong></span><br />
Set on the eve of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland, The Monastery is full of supernatural events, theological conflict, and humour. Located in the lawless Scottish Borders, the novel depicts the monastery of Kennaquhair (a thinly disguised Melrose Abbey, whose ruins are still to be seen near Scott&#8217;s own home at Abbotsford) on the verge of dissolution, and the fortunes of two brothers as they respond to a new social and religious order. Highlights of the narrative include a moving encounter between two representatives of opposing sides in the Reformation controversy who had been students together in less troubled times, and the final formal procession of the Kennaquhair monks as the reformed forces arrive. A talking-point when the work was first published, the mysterious spectral White Lady, guardian of the magical Black Book, still intrigues readers. A strong comic element is provided by Sir Piercie Shafton with his absurd linguistic mannerisms fashionable at the English court.<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><strong> The Abbot </strong></span><br />
This volume concludes the fiction begun in &#8220;The Monastery&#8221;. Scott follows the fortunes of young Roland Graeme as he emerges from rural obscurity to become an attendant of Mary Queen of Scots during her captivity in Lochleven Castle. Roland&#8217;s part in Mary&#8217;s escape from the Castle is excitingly narrated, and Mary herself is vividly characterised in captivity, in her brief period of freedom, and in her final defeat.<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><strong> Kenilworth </strong></span><br />
No historian&#8217;s Queen Elizabeth was ever so perfectly a woman as the fictitious Elizabeth of Kenilworth,&#8221; wrote Thomas Hardy. Scott&#8217;s magnificent novel recreates the drama and the strange mixture of assurance and profound unease of the age of Elizabeth through the story of Amy Robsart. A woman of great beauty and integrity, Amy is married to the Earl of Leicester, one of the queen&#8217;s favorites, who must keep his marriage secret or else incur royal displeasure. Rich in character, melodrama, and romance, Kenilworth is rivaled only by the great Elizabethan dramas.<br />
<em>An Appreciation of Sir Walter Scott in Ten Parts</em><br />
<a href="http://www.hcbooksonline.com/blog/?p=844" target="_blank">Part I – Walter Scott, A Short Biography</a><br />
<a href="http://www.hcbooksonline.com/blog/?p=855" target="_blank">Part II – Scott The Poet.</a><br />
<a href="http://www.hcbooksonline.com/blog/?p=890" target="_blank">Part III – The Waverley Novels, Introduction and The First Four Novels (Waverley, Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, Rob Roy)</a><br />
<a href="http://www.hcbooksonline.com/blog/?p=904" target="_blank">Part IV The Waverley Novels continued (The Black Dwarf, Old Mortality, Heart Of Midlothian, Bride of Lammermoor, Legend Of Montrose)</a><br />
Part V &#8211; The Waverley Novels continued (Ivanhoe, The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth)<br />
Parts VI-III &#8211; The Waverley Novels continued (Coming Soon)<br />
Part IX – Locations Associated with Sir Walter Scott. (Coming Soon)<br />
Part X – Short Bibliography including Editions of The Waverley Novels. (Coming Soon)</p>
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<p><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Tales of My Landlord </strong></span></p>
<p>The Tales of My Landlord series was not advertised as “by the author of Waverley” but these novels are always included in The Waverley Novels Collections.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Tales of My Landlord, 1st series </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: blue;"><strong>The Black Dwarf </strong></span></p>
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<p>Sir Edward Mauley is The Black Dwarf, a character based on a very real man of Scott&#8217;s acquaintance. Mauley becomes involved in the quarrel of a friend &#8212; and, when imprisoned for his actions in that quarrel, finds himself betrayed by the very man in whose cause he lost his liberty. When free, he goes to Mucklestane Moor, where his extraordinary strength, knowledge of medicine, and ready wealth lead the local people to regard him as a supernatural being &#8212; a servant of the Devil. . . .</p>
<p><span style="color: blue;"><strong> The Tale of Old Mortality</strong></span></p>
<p>Describes the lives – and often violent deaths – the hopes, and the struggles, of the Covenanters in late seventeenth-century Scotland. A tale of extremism, bigotry and cruelty, it is redeemed by its characters&#8217; courage and loyalty, and their passionate belief in religious and civil liberty. Considered to be one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century, its influence pervades European writing from Stendhal to Tolstoy. A swift-moving historical romance that places an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in 17th-century Scotland in the period infamous as the &#8220;killing time&#8221;. Henry Morton is torn between his love for a royalist&#8217;s granddaughter and his loyalty to his downtrodden countrymen.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Tales of My Landlord, 2nd series </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Heart of Midlothian </strong></span></p>
<p>Precisely focused on the trials for murder of John Porteous and of Effie Deans in 1736 and 1737. Yet it is a chronicle which spans the eighty years of the life of David Deans, whose death takes place in 1751. The most complex of all Scott&#8217;s narratives, it is also the most challenging in that it raises in an acute fashion the problem of a judicial system that does not produce justice. Scott places this fundamental issue in its immediate political context, in history as represented by the life of Deans, and alongside the justice of Providence as perceived by his daughter Jeanie, the greatest of Scott&#8217;s heroines.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Tales of My Landlord, 3rd series </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: blue;"><strong>The Bride of Lammermoor </strong></span></p>
<p>The most haunting and Shakespearean of Scott&#8217;s novels, The Bride of Lammermoor is a fast-paced tragedy set on the eve of the 1707 Union. The proud young Master of Ravenswood sees his estate pass to the astute Sir William Ashton. When Ravenswood falls in love with Ashton&#8217;s daughter, her diabolical mother takes extreme measures to thwart the match – with tragic results. A story of immense gloomy power, infused by the unforgiving spirit of the North Sea.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue;"><strong>A Legend of Montrose </strong></span></p>
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<p>Against the background of Montrose&#8217;s campaign of 1644–5, this spirited novel centres on one of Scott&#8217;s most memorable creations – Sir Dugald Dalgetty of Drumthwacket. This hard-headed Aberdonian contrasts tellingly with the weird and passionate Highland feud in which he becomes perilously entangled, as the narrative moves from Dalgetty&#8217;s unflinching encounter with the Duke of Argyll, to his dramatic escape from Inveraray Castle, to the battle of Inverlochy.</p>
<p><em>An Appreciation of Sir Walter Scott in Ten Parts</em><br />
<a href="http://www.hcbooksonline.com/blog/?p=844" target="_blank">Part I – Walter Scott, A Short Biography</a><br />
<a href="http://www.hcbooksonline.com/blog/?p=855" target="_blank">Part II – Scott The Poet.</a><br />
<a href="http://www.hcbooksonline.com/blog/?p=890" target="_blank">Part III – The Waverley Novels, Introduction and The First Four Novels</a><br />
Part IV- The Waverley Novels continued (The Black Dwarf, Old Mortality, Heart of Midlothian, Bride of Lammermoor, Legend of Montrose)<br />
<a href="http://www.hcbooksonline.com/blog/?p=934" target="_blank">Part V – The Waverley Novels continued (Ivanhoe, The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth)</a><br />
<a href="http://www.hcbooksonline.com/blog/?p=949" target="_blank">Part VI &#8211; The Waverley Novels cont. (The Pirate, The Fortunes of Nigel, Peveril of the Peak, Quentin Durward )</a><br />
Parts VII-VIII &#8211; The Waverley Novels. (Coming Soon)<br />
Part IX – Locations Associated with Sir Walter Scott. (Coming Soon)<br />
Part X – Short Bibliography including Editions of The Waverley Novels. (Coming Soon)</p>
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<h3><span style="color: blue;">Part III – The Waverley Novels, Introduction and The First Four Novels</span></h3>
<p><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Introduction</strong></span></p>
<p>The Waverley Novels are a long series of books by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832). For nearly a century they were among the most popular and widely-read novels in all of Europe. Because he did not publicly acknowledge authorship until 1827, they take their name from Waverley (1814), which was the first. The later books bore the words &#8220;by the author of Waverley&#8221; on their title pages. More loosely, the term is used to refer to all of his novels. The Tales of my Landlord series was not advertised as &#8220;by the author of Waverley&#8221; but they are generally part of the collected editions.<br />
Scott&#8217;s work shows the influence of the 18th century Enlightenment. He believed every human was basically decent regardless of class, religion, politics, or ancestry. Tolerance is a major theme in his historical works. The Waverley Novels express his belief in the need for social progress that does not reject the traditions of the past. He was the first novelist to portray peasant characters sympathetically and realistically, and was equally just to merchants, soldiers, and even kings.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue;"><strong>48 Volume Edition</strong></span></p>
<p>The first full collection of works is referred to as “The Magnum Opus” Edition, published 1829-1833, and consisted of the following 48 volumes;</p>
<p>I Waverley I</p>
<p>II Waverley II</p>
<p>III Guy Mannering I</p>
<p>IV Guy Mannering II</p>
<p>V The Antiquary I</p>
<p>VI The Antiquary II</p>
<p>VII Rob Roy I</p>
<p>VIII Rob Roy II</p>
<p>IX Old Mortality I</p>
<p>Vol X Old Mortality II</p>
<p>XI Heart of Mid-Lothian I</p>
<p>XII Heart of Mid-Lothian II</p>
<p>XIII Bride of Lammermoor I</p>
<p>XIV Bride of Lammermoor II</p>
<p>XV   A Legend of Montrose</p>
<p>XVI   Ivanhoe I</p>
<p>XVII Ivanhoe II</p>
<p>XVIII The Monastery I</p>
<p>XIX The Monastery II</p>
<p>XX The Abbott I</p>
<p>XXI The Abbot II</p>
<p>XXII Kennilworth I</p>
<p>XXIII Kennilworth II</p>
<p>XXIV The Pirate I</p>
<p>XXV The Pirate II</p>
<p>XXVI The Fortunes of Nigel I</p>
<p>XXVII The Fortunes of Nigel II</p>
<p>XXVII Peveril of the Peak I</p>
<p>XXIX Peveril of the Peak II</p>
<p>XXX Peveril of the Peak III</p>
<p>XXXI Quentin Durward I</p>
<p>XXXII Quentin Durward II</p>
<p>XXXIII St Ronan&#8217;s Well I</p>
<p>XXXIV St Ronan&#8217;s Well II</p>
<p>XXXV Red Gauntlet I</p>
<p>XXXVI Red Gauntlet II</p>
<p>XXXVII The Betrothed</p>
<p>XXXVIII The Talisman</p>
<p>XXXIX  Woodstock I</p>
<p>XLWoodstock II</p>
<p>XLI  The Highland Widow</p>
<p>XLII   Fair Maid of Perth I</p>
<p>XLIII  Fair Maid of Perth II</p>
<p>XLIV Anne of Geierstein I</p>
<p>XLV  Anne of Geierstein II</p>
<p>XLVI Count Robert of Paris I</p>
<p>XLVII  Count Robert of Paris II, Castle Dangerous</p>
<p>XLVIII Castle Dangerous, The Surgeon&#8217;s Daughter</p>
<p>Subsequent editions were published in 48 and 24/25 volume editions.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue;"><strong>24/25 Volume Editions</strong></span></p>
<p>The 24/25 volume editions are generally as follows;</p>
<p>I	Waverley</p>
<p>II	Guy Mannering</p>
<p>III	The Antiquary</p>
<p>IV	Rob Roy</p>
<p>V	Old Mortality</p>
<p>VI	Heart Of Midlothian</p>
<p>VII	Montrose /Blackdwarf</p>
<p>VIII	The Bride Of Lammermoor</p>
<p>IX	Ivanhoe</p>
<p>X	The Monastery</p>
<p>XI	The Abbot</p>
<p>XII	Kenilworth</p>
<p>XIII	The Pirate</p>
<p>XIV	The Fortunes Of Nigel</p>
<p>XV	Peveril Of The Peak</p>
<p>XVI	Quentin Durward</p>
<p>XVII	St. Ronan&#8217;s Well</p>
<p>XVIII	Red Gauntlet</p>
<p>XIX	The Betrothed/Talisman</p>
<p>XX	Woodstock</p>
<p>XXI	Fair Maid of Perth</p>
<p>XXII	Anne Of Geierstein</p>
<p>XXIII	Count Robert Of Paris/The Surgeon’s Daughter</p>
<p>XXIV	Castle Dangerous /Chronicles etc.</p>
<p>The differences between the 24 and 25 volume editions is marginal and is due to the way the publishers collated the shorter novels, from volume XIX onwards. The overall content for the works is unchanged.</p>
<p>There may also be a uniformly bound autobiography of Sir Walter Scott, normally in two volumes. The Life of Sir Walter Scott by J G Lockhart.</p>
<h3><span style="color: blue;"><strong>The First Four Waverley Novels</strong></span></h3>
<p>The first four Waverley Novels were;<br />
Waverley(1814), Guy Mannering(1815), The Antiquary(1816) and Rob Roy(1817).<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><strong>Waverley, or, Tis Sixty Years Since</strong></span></p>
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<p>The period is 1745-1746 and the main setting is Perthshire, Scotland.  Waverley is an historical novel by Sir Walter Scott. Initially published anonymously in 1814 as Scott&#8217;s first venture into prose fiction, Waverley is often regarded as the first historical novel.<br />
Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart (or &#8216;Bonnie Prince Charlie&#8217;). It relates the story of a young dreamer and English soldier, Edward Waverley, who was sent to Scotland in 1745. He journeys North from his aristocratic family home, Waverley-Honour, in the south of England first to the Scottish Lowlands and the home of family friend Baron Bradwardine, then into the Highlands and the heart of the 1745 Jacobite uprising and aftermath.<br />
Upon publication, Waverley was an astonishing success, the first edition of one thousand copies sold out within two days of publication, and by November a fourth edition was at the presses.<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><strong>Guy Mannering or The Astrologer</strong></span></p>
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<p>Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer, was Walter Scott&#8217;s second novel, first published anonymously in 1815. According to an introduction that Scott wrote in 1829, he had originally intended to write a story of the supernatural, but changed his mind soon after starting. The book was a huge success, selling out the day after its first edition.<br />
Guy Mannering is set in the 1760s to 1780s, mostly in the Galloway area of southwest Scotland, but with episodes in Cumberland, Holland, and India. It tells the story of Harry Bertram, the son of the Laird of Ellangowan, who is kidnapped at the age of five by smugglers after witnessing the murder of a customs officer. It follows the fortunes and adventures of Henry and his family in subsequent years and the struggle over the inheritance of Ellangowan. The novel also depicts the lawlessness that existed at the time, when smugglers operated along the coast and thieves frequented the country roads.<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><strong>The Antiquary</strong></span></p>
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<p>The period is the 1790’s and the main setting is Angus, Scotland.  The Antiquary (1816) is a novel by Sir Walter Scott about several characters including an amateur historian, archaeologist and collector of items of dubious antiquity. Although he is 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 &#8211; on which he provides a sardonic commentary. This is Scott&#8217;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&#8217;s more down-to-earth characters, and grittily unromantic events.</p>
<p>The third of the Waverley Novels is dominated by two old men, Jonathan Oldbuck (the Antiquary of the title) and the beggar Edie Ochiltree. Together they apply their knowledge of the past to sort out the confusion of the present, and in doing so restore the fortunes of ancient houses. This was Scott’s favourite among his novels, and presents a quizzical and amusing view of the profession of history and, by implication, of Scott’s own practice as writer and collector.</p>
<p><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Rob Roy</strong></span></p>
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<p>The period is the 1715-16 and the main setting is Loch Lomond, Scotland. Rob Roy (1817) is a novel by Walter Scott about Frank Osbaldistone, the son of an English merchant who goes to the Scottish Highlands to collect a debt stolen from his father. Rob Roy MacGregor, whom the book is named after, appears in the book several times but is not the lead character (in fact the narrative does not move to Scotland until half way through the book).<br />
The story takes place at the time of the &#8217;15 Jacobite Rising. Frank Osbaldistone, the narrator, quarrels with his father and is sent to stay with an uncle, Sir Hildebrand Osbaldistone, in Northumberland. Banished from his father&#8217;s house, Frank Osbaldistone becomes involved in the conspiracy surrounding the disastrous Jacobite rising of 1715. His adventures take him to &#8220;MacGregor&#8217;s country&#8221;, across the Highland Line, where he finds cruelty, heartbreak, and some unlikely friends one of which is Robert Roy MacGregor, a famous Scottish folk hero who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. He was considered an outlaw of the early 18th century by the nobles and leaders.<br />
The novel is a brutally realistic depiction of the social conditions in Highland and Lowland Scotland in the early 18th Century.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">Coming Soon </span>- <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read Part IV </span>More Waverley Novels.</p>
<p><em>An Appreciation of Sir Walter Scott in Ten Parts</em><br />
<a href="http://www.hcbooksonline.com/blog/?p=844" target="_blank">Part I – Walter Scott, A Short Biography.</a><br />
<a href="http://www.hcbooksonline.com/blog/?p=855" target="_blank">Part II – Scott The Poet.</a><br />
Part III – The Waverley Novels, Introduction and The First Four Novels<br />
<a href="http://www.hcbooksonline.com/blog/?p=904" target="_blank">Part IV – The Waverley Novels continued.</a><br />
<a href="http://www.hcbooksonline.com/blog/?p=934" target="_blank">Part V – The Waverley Novels continued.</a><br />
<a href="http://www.hcbooksonline.com/blog/?p=949" target="_blank">Part VI &#8211; The Waverley Novels cont. (The Pirate, The Fortunes of Nigel, Peveril of the Peak, Quentin Durward )</a><br />
Parts VII-VIII &#8211; The Waverley Novels. (Coming Soon)<br />
<em>Part IX – Locations Associated with Sir Walter Scott. (Coming Soon)<br />
Part X – Short Bibliography including Editions of The Waverley Novels. (Coming Soon)</em></p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: blue;">Superb Robert Burns Collection</span></strong></p>
<p>Listed this week a superb Robert Burns Collection</p>
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<p>Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) (also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland&#8217;s favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, Robden of Solway Firth, the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as The Bard). was a Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a &#8220;light&#8221; Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard English, and in these his political or civil commentary is often at its most blunt.</p>
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<p>Titles listed are;</p>
<p><a href=" http://www.hcbooksonline.com/browse-all/robert-burns-and-dumfries-philip-sulley-dumfries-1896/prod_6448.html  " target="_blank"> Robert Burns And Dumfries Philip Sulley Dumfries 1896 </a></p>
<p><a href=" http://www.hcbooksonline.com/browse-all/2-volumes-the-life-of-robert-burns-lockhart-young-limited-edition-1914/prod_6450.html  " target="_blank"> 2 Volumes The Life Of Robert Burns Lockhart Young Limited Edition 1914</a></p>
<p><a href=" http://www.hcbooksonline.com/browse-all/4-volumes-the-poetry-of-robert-burns-henley-henderson-jack-1896/prod_6451.html  " target="_blank"> 4 Volumes The Poetry Of Robert Burns Henley Henderson Jack 1896</a></p>
<p><a href=" http://www.hcbooksonline.com/browse-all/4-volumes-the-life-and-works-of-robert-burns-wallace-chambers-1896/prod_6452.html  " target="_blank"> 4 Volumes The Life And Works Of Robert Burns Wallace Chambers 1896</a></p>
<p><a href=" http://www.hcbooksonline.com/browse-all/6-volumes-the-works-of-robert-burns-paterson-1877/prod_6453.html  " target="_blank"> 6 Volumes The Works Of Robert Burns Paterson 1877</a></p>
<p><a href=" http://www.hcbooksonline.com/browse-all/6-volumes-the-works-of-robert-burns-thin-1895/prod_6454.html  " target="_blank"> 6 Volumes The Works Of Robert Burns James Thin 1895</a></p>
<p><a href=" http://www.hcbooksonline.com/browse-all/a-manual-of-religious-belief-william-burnes-burns-mckie-limited-1875/prod_6455.html  " target="_blank"> A Manual Of Religious Belief William Burnes Burns Mckie Limited 1875</a></p>
<p><a href=" http://www.hcbooksonline.com/browse-all/bibliography-of-robert-burns-mckie-limited-edition-1881/prod_6449.html " target="_blank"> Bibliography Of Robert Burns McKie Limited Edition 1881 </a></p>
<div id="attachment_888" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 162px"><a href="http://www.hcbooksonline.com/browse-all/bibliography-of-robert-burns-mckie-limited-edition-1881/prod_6449.html "><img class="size-medium wp-image-888" title="21252" src="http://www.hcbooksonline.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/212521-152x300.jpg" alt="" width="152" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Bibliography Of Robert Burns McKie Limited Edition 1881</p></div>
<p>Why not <a href=" http://www.hcbooksonline.com/literary-fiction/poetry/cat_22.html " target="_blank"> Browse my Poetry Catalogue? </a></p>
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