Item #241 Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century. Sir Walter Scott.

Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century.

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1824. First Edition, Worthington’s second state. One of the later Waverley novels about the Bonnie Prince contemplating waging a fictional third Jacobite Rebellion. This book also contains and includes the first appearance of Scott’s meandering ghost story “Wandering Willie's Tale.”

3 vols. 12mo. Todd & Bowden 178Aa. Sterling 738. Worthington 17. [4], 319pp., [3]; [4], 328pp., [2]; [4], 331pp., [3].
Very good, without half-titles or catalogue, all edges marbled, half leather over marbled boards, bookplate on all volumes which browns flyleaf, gift inscription to title page of all volumes, corners worn. Item #241

Price: $175.00