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Record Number: PEO0005

Related Work: [none]

Illustration Title/Caption: Waverley Novels Vol IV.

Keyword(s): Arms & Armaments - Kenneth of Scotland, Knight of the Leopard - Louis XI, King of France ('Maitre Pierre') - Music - Saladin

Artist: No Artist

Engraver: Robert Edward Branston

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 19.8 x 11.8

Date: 1847

Source Text: Waverley Novels [People’s Edition] (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1842-47)

Position in Source Text: vol. 4 (engraved title-page)

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson Add. A.7.a.1843-b/4

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Collage of images associated with the works in this volume (i.e. Quentin Durward, St Ronan’s Well, Redgauntlet, The Betrothed, The Highland Widow, The Talisman, The Two Drovers, and three short stories), with several figures. These include Saladin and Kenneth of Scotland, seated together at the oasis, at the foot; and Louis XI of France among those at the top. Imprint date of 1847, letterpress title-page dated 1846.

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