Waverley, Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since / Sir Walter Scott
Book
389 pages plus 10 pages publisher's advertising. Frontis illustration.
Inferior paper and printing.
2015.7.119
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
1880sCheap book production
7-1/2 in
5 in
Walter Scott
Alta Edition
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
United States
North America
circa 1880
Publisher's Binding- Gold Band Titles
In a distinct uniform series binding of brick colored cloth stamped in black to spine and cover. Cover and spine design has leaf and flower motif stamped on a diagonal with only the background alternating from solid black to stippling. "Alta Edition" stamped to center of cover with title in a rectangular bordered panel to the top. Gold title band to spine. Light brown endpapers.
No publication date.