Edinburgh: for Archibald Constable and Co. and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1820. 3 volumes, 8vo. Half–titles; 3pp. publisher’s ads at end of vol.3. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides (rebacked). Provenance: early ownership signatures on half-titles.

FIRST EDITION, second issue. Scott’s Ivanhoe is considered one of the most popular of all historical novels and one of the author’s most popular and influential Waverley novels that led to an early Victorian revival of interest in the Middle Ages, together with the legends of Robin Hood and Richard the Lionheart. Ivanhoe was adapted into film nine times, beginning in 1913. Grolier, One Hundred English 71; Worthington 8; Todd & Bowden 140Aa.