Ivanhoe and The Monastery by Sir Walter Scott.
No:5 in the collection of Waverley Novels set.
Ivanhoe: It is about the life of Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, a fictional Saxon knight. Despite the criticism it received because of its historical inaccuracies, the novel was one of Scott's most popular works. Ivanhoe, a chivalrous knight, returns to England after having fought beside Richard the Lion-Heart in the Crusades
The Monastery: The story revolves around the abbey of Kennaquhair, which Scott based on Melrose Abbey in the Scottish borders. As the Reformation takes hold, the monastic community comes increasingly under threat from the new doctrines. The hero, Halbert Glendinning is the son of a soldier who has died fighting for the monastery.
Ivanhoe & Monastery by Sir Walter Scott-Waverley Novels c1890's
Title: Ivanhoe and The Monastery
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Publisher : W P Nimmo
Publication Undated late c1890's
Format: Hardback / LeatherCondition: Black covers with leather to spine and corners. Some heavy scuffing to the spine and corners with a small piece of leather missing from the top corner. Pages are clean with no ink or pencil marks and have marbled edges. Some light foxing to a few pages. Picture plate to frontispiece. Marbled endpapers.
Book measures: 19cm x 13cm with 384 + 310 pages