The Lord of the Isles, a poem

Scott, Sir Walter

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The Lord of the Isles is a narrative poem by Walter Scott in six cantos with substantial notes. Set in 1307 and 1314 Scotland it covers the story of Robert the Bruce from his return from exile in Ireland to the successful culmination of his struggle to secure Scottish independence from English control at the Battle of Bannockburn. Interwoven with this account is a romantic fiction centring on one of the Bruce’s prominent supporters, Ronald, Lord of the Isles, involving his love for the Bruce’s sister Isabel, who eventually takes the veil, and the transfer of his affections to Edith of Lorn to whom he had been betrothed at the beginning of the poem and whom he marries at the end.

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Publisher
Archibald Constable & Co; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Publisher City
Edinburgh & London
Year
1814
Edition
1st
Format
h/b
Author
Scott, Sir Walter
SKU
IYC132296
Categories
Condition
Very good, 1st edition, red half-morocco, quarto (some rubbing); 5-ribbed spine with gilt spine titling; text llock firm, pages crisp and unmarked; top edge guilt; half-title, advertisement, scattered faint spotting.
Size
4to (300 x 240 / 12" x 9_)
Page Count
275 + clxv
ISBN