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Peveril of the Peak

SCOTT, Walter

[With Introduction, Prefatory Letter, Notes and Index].

CONTEMPORARY THEME BINDING

Published: A & C Black Edinburgh, 1871

Stock code: 6971

Price: £76.00

With a personal pictorial bookplate on front paste-down. The fine topographical plates depict locations from the novel: Peak Castle Derbyshire (Richardson after Leitch), Haddon Hall (Horsburgh after Leitch), Peel Castle Isle of Man (Miller after Leitch), Glen Mary Isle of Man (Forrest after Leitch), Liverpool 1664 (Finden after Austin) and The Tower [of London] 1670 (Finden after Roberts). The seventh plate is a portrait of George Villiers Duke of Buckingham engraved by Shaw. A lovely copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.