The Fortunes of Nigel
by the Author of "Waverley, Kenilworth," Etc.
In Three Volumes
Volume II
(Sir Walter Scott)
LEATHER BOUND
FIRST EDITION
VOL II ONLY
A young Scottish nobleman, Nigel Olifaunt, Lord Glenvarloch, travels to London in order to ask the King to repay his father's loan. Nigel wishes to use the money to pay off a mortgage on his estate-but the Duke of Buckingham and Prince Charles already have their eyes on it. The lord is drawn into the chaotic life of the court, and when he becomes an enemy of the profligate Lord Dalgarno, he finds himself in grave danger.
Scott's main sources for The Fortunes of Nigel were Jacobean dramas and other imaginative literature of the period, but he was also well acquainted with other contemporaneous publications and more recent studies. For his depiction of James, and details of events during his reign, he was able to draw extensively on his own edition, published in 1811, of Secret History of the Court of James the First, containing a set of contemporaneous or early memoirs and histories.
Publisher: Printed for Archibald Constable and Company, Edinburg
Copyright: 1822
CONDITION: This book is in good condition. Leather. Leather boards are worn along edges and corners with some surface rubbing. The leather is chipped along outer hinges and the head/tail of spine. Four raised bands on the spine with gilt titles. Hinges tight. Binding square. Green marbled endpapers bear an elegant ex-libris belonging to Sir John E. Swinburne Bar. The text block is lightly foxed. Volume II only.
334 pages, 4.25" x 7"
by the Author of "Waverley, Kenilworth," Etc.
In Three Volumes
Volume II
(Sir Walter Scott)
LEATHER BOUND
FIRST EDITION
VOL II ONLY
A young Scottish nobleman, Nigel Olifaunt, Lord Glenvarloch, travels to London in order to ask the King to repay his father's loan. Nigel wishes to use the money to pay off a mortgage on his estate-but the Duke of Buckingham and Prince Charles already have their eyes on it. The lord is drawn into the chaotic life of the court, and when he becomes an enemy of the profligate Lord Dalgarno, he finds himself in grave danger.
Scott's main sources for The Fortunes of Nigel were Jacobean dramas and other imaginative literature of the period, but he was also well acquainted with other contemporaneous publications and more recent studies. For his depiction of James, and details of events during his reign, he was able to draw extensively on his own edition, published in 1811, of Secret History of the Court of James the First, containing a set of contemporaneous or early memoirs and histories.
Publisher: Printed for Archibald Constable and Company, Edinburg
Copyright: 1822
CONDITION: This book is in good condition. Leather. Leather boards are worn along edges and corners with some surface rubbing. The leather is chipped along outer hinges and the head/tail of spine. Four raised bands on the spine with gilt titles. Hinges tight. Binding square. Green marbled endpapers bear an elegant ex-libris belonging to Sir John E. Swinburne Bar. The text block is lightly foxed. Volume II only.
334 pages, 4.25" x 7"