Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (Collins, 1968)

Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott with an introduction by Sir H. J. C. Grierson
Collins, reprint 1968

Originally published in 1819 and one of Scott’s most popular novels with many editions and printings. It was published in the extensive New Collins Classics series in 1953, this copy a 1968 printing.

Limp boards. Publisher’s blue textured Rexine (or similiar) cloth with gilt title and decoration to spine; grey printed endpapers with repeated Collins Classics monogram design; tinted pale blue to top edge of page-block. 480pp including b/w porrait frontispiece. Size: 7.25 x 4.5 inches approx. (184mm x 115mm).

A lovely, fresh copy which appears unread – copies in this condition aren’t as common as they used to be.

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