1827 1st ed Sir Walter Scott Galignani Waverly Novels Napoleon Bonaparte 9v



A highly rare and scarcely printed nine-volume collection of The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott. A seven-year endeavor, this set was collectively compiled, published, and printed in Paris, France by brothers John Anthony Galignani and William Galignani.



This set was printed after Sir Walter Scott sold his sheets for his works while visiting the Galignani brothers club, called the “Pirates Den” located at the bottom court of 18 rue Vivienne in Paris in 1826. According to Scotts own testimony, the club would charge a monthly fee that included their reading room with an enormous English library of some eighteen thousand books. In addition to their “den” the brothers were known for issuing reprints of English works and would often pay authors for advance sheets of their works in order to print and sell them in France.



These “Galignani sets” would see a very limited print run, thus making them exceptionally rare today especially, as a complete nine-volume set.



Item number: #40682

Price: $950



SCOTT, Walter



The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott



Paris: A. and W. Galignani and Co., 1827-1834. First edition.



Details:

Collation: Complete; 9 volumes

Vol. I – Waverly. Guy Mannering. Antiquary. Rob Roy. Ivanhoe.

[2], 771, [1]

Includes engraved portrait frontispiece of Scott

Vol. II – Tales of My Landlord. The Monastery.

[4], 750

Vol. III – The Abbot. Kenilworth. The Pirate. The Fortunes of Nigel. Quentin Durward.

[4], 840

Vol. IV – Peveril of the Peak. St. Ronans Well. Redgauntlet. Tales of the Crusaders.

[4], 769, [1]

Vol. V – Woodstock. Memoirs of Swift. Life of Dryden. Lives of the Novelists. Pauls Letters. Goetz of Berlichingen. Essays.

[4], 720

Vol. VI – The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte

XX, 858

Includes engraved frontispiece

Vol. VII – Chronicles of the Canongate. Anne of Geierstein. Tales of a Grandfather.

[4], 870

Vol. VIII – The History of Scotland. Biographical Memoirs. Religious Discourses. House of Aspen. Doom of Devorgoil. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft. History of France. Robert of Paris. Castle Dangerous Tales and Essays. Glossary.

[2], 945, [1]

Vol. IX – Supplementary Volume: Containing Notes, Historical and Illustrative, by the Author, Glossary, etc.

[4], XXI, [1], 76; 59, [1]; 56; 59, [1]; 15, [1]; 42; 11, [1]; 23, [1]

Language: English

Binding: Leather; secure

Visible repair at rear inner hinge of Vol. I

Wanting front board of Vol. I

Size: ~9in X 5.5in (23cm x 14cm)



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