[Fore-edge Painting], Fishing from boat Waverley Novels. Vol XXIX Peveril of the Peak

16mo. 1860. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles black. Full green morocco, spine with elaborate gilt decorated compartments between 5 raised bands, 1 compartment with label title vol number, very heavy gilt covers, and elaborately gilt decorated boards, with gilt inner dentelles and all edges gilt. Fore-edge painting of a man in a boat fishing, with a fish on the line. Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSAScot (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels Ivanhoe (1819), Rob Roy (1817), Waverley (1814), Old Mortality (1816), The Heart of Mid-Lothian (1818), and The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), along with the narrative poems Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810). He had a major impact on European and American literature.