[SCOTT, Walter, Sir.]
Ivanhoe; A Romance. By “The Author of Waverley,” &c. … In three Volumes … Second Edition.
Edinburgh, [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Archibald Constable & Co., and London, Hurst, Robinson, & Co., 1820.
Three vols, 8vo, pp. I: [4], xxxiii, [1 (blank)], 306, II: [2], 327, [1 (blank)], III: [2], 371, [1 (blank)], 3 (ads), [1 (blank)]; I D1 loose and frayed at fore-edge, quire III R partly loose, occasional marks; bound in contemporary green half morocco with marbled sides, spines gilt in compartments and lettered directly in gilt, edges marbled; somewhat worn, chips at extremities, slight cracks to joints, but a good set; ink inscriptions ‘Mary and Martha Metcalf / June 1832’ to front flyleaves.
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Ivanhoe; A Romance. By “The Author of Waverley,” &c. … In three Volumes … Second Edition.
Stated second edition but in fact a third issue of the first, published on 15 January; the first issue, published on 20 December the previous year, is similarly dated 1820.
‘Ivanhoe is essentially a moral work. It is an intense consideration of misogyny and racial oppression, in which the attempted rape of Rebecca the Jewess by the dominant figure of the Norman master race, Brian de Bois-Guilbert, is a powerful symbol of the themes of the novel. Ivanhoe may be set in a distant period, but it has a political modernity which makes it one of the most remarkable novels of the nineteenth century’ (ODNB).
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