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THBSir Walter Scott’s The Lady of the Lake 1865
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522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
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Sir Walter Scott’s The Lady of the Lake 1865.
Size: 7 3/4 x 6 1/2 x 1 in.
This six-canto poem by Sir Walter Scott tells the story of King James V's struggle against James Douglas and the affections of three suitors towards Douglas' daughter, Ellen. It is a narrative poem first published in 1810, set in the Trossachs region of Scotland, each cantos concerns the action of a single day, and it has three main plots: the contest among three suitors, Roderick Dhu, James Fitz-James, and Malcolm Graeme, to win the love of Ellen Douglas; the feud and reconciliation of King James V of Scotland and James Douglas; and a war between the Lowland Scots (led by James V) and the Highland clans.
The poem is not based upon specific historic events, but has certain elements that occurred in Scottish history, and The Lady of the Lake continued to be standard reading in elementary schools until the early twentieth century.
Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) was a Scottish novelist, poet, and historian who wrote Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, and The Lady of the Lake, among others, and he was by far the most popular poet of the time until Lord Byron came along.
The first edition of The Lady of the Lake was published in Edinburgh by John Ballantyne on May 8, 1810 and in London on May 16 by Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller. The price was two guineas (£2 2s or £2.10), and only 2000 copies were printed the first time around.
Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist and former slave, took his last name from the poem and became one of the most important leaders of the civil rights movement in the 19th century. When Douglass escaped from slavery, he changed his last name to hide from his former master; a friend, Nathan Johnson of New Bedford, Massachusetts, had just been reading The Lady of the Lake and proposed a new one - “he at once suggested that my name be ‘Douglass’, according to Douglass in his autobiography Up From Slavery.
The book has five raised bands, gilt lettering and gilt-ruled compartments on the spine, gilt ruled borders and gilt decorations on the front cover, blank endpapers and wide gilt dentelles on the endpapers, the owner’s name on the front free flyleaf, a half-title followed by the title page with a paste-down of Scott’s tomb at Dryburgh, the book was published in1865 in London by A W Bennett, according to the title page, then comes a Contents page listing the six cantos, a List of Photographic Illustrations (fourteen mounted photographs in all), the text is 215 pages long, there are tissue guards with each photographic illustration, and all the edges are gilt.
The book measures 7 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches wide and is in very good condition. The binding is tight and the pages and illustrations are clean, with faint brown spots here and there, light rubbing at the heel and crown of the spine and at the tips, a thin white mark on the back board, and apparently the owner’s bookplate fell off the front endpaper. Overall a very attractive copy of this title by Sir Walter Scott.
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