Ivanhoe A Romance

Scott, Sir Walter

Edité par Dodd Mead and Company, New York, 1930

A propos de cet article

Reprint. Hard cover, 8vo, in blue cloth with applied chromolithographed artwork to front board of knights jousting, the titles blocked in gilt to front and spine, 500pp. with 16 full page color illustrations by the Austrian-born British painter and book illustrator Rowland Wheelwright (1870-1955), 500 pp. A reprint of the 1922 Dodd Mead edition. CONDITION: Very Good Minus. Some paint to bottom board, titles on spine heavily worn (can't read). Text block edges with some staining and toning. No foxing seen. Inside, ghost of two small labels to ffep. Otherwise, clean and only lightly age-toned. This influential chivalric tale of Scott's set in the medieval Britain of King Richard 1st, pits the Saxon Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe against the mysterious "Black Knight." Exciting action scenes pack this story with archery, jousting, distressed damsels, (including the lovely Lady Rowena,) first published in 1819. This single-volume edition with the colorful illustrations of Rowland Wheelwright brings the tale alive to a new generation of readers. Victorian critics called Ivanhoe influential in igniting the Romantic movement in art, poetry and literature, including the Pre-Raphaelites artist's group. A colorful reading copy of this classic adventure novel.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Ivanhoe A Romance
• Éditeur: Dodd Mead and Company, New York
• Date de parution: 1930
• Reliure: Hard Cover
• Illustrateur: Rowland Wheelwright
• État de l'article: Very Good Minus
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Literature - 19th Century
  • ILLUSTRATED