[Fore-edge Painting, Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field, Ernie Banks] Waverley Novels. Volumes XX The Abbot, Vos I.

16mo. 1860. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. Full green morocco, spine with elaborate gilt decorated compartments between 5 raised bands, 1 compartment with label title vol number, very heavy gilt covers, and elaborately gilt decorated boards, with gilt inner dentelles and all edges gilt. 1 Fore-edge paintings. Volume I. with the Chicago Cubs logo in the middle of the fore-edge, Ernie Banks to its left and Wrigley Field Scoreboard to its right. Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSAScot (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels Ivanhoe (1819), Rob Roy (1817), Waverley (1814), Old Mortality (1816), The Heart of Mid-Lothian (1818), and The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), along with the narrative poems Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810). He had a major impact on European and American literature.