Physical description

Waverley Novels Vol 28 Peveril of the Peak 1
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Publisher: Fisher & Son
Date: 1838
Further Information: Light brown hardcover lettering in black text.

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

The label on the spine with typed text PAT FIC SCO
Paste down front end paper has a sticker from Warrnambool Public Library covered by a sticker from Corangamite Regional Library Service

Summary

The subject volume of Waverley Novels part 1 Vol 28 published by Fisher Son & Co (1838) is part of a collected 48 volume set of Sir Walter Scott's works, containing various stories. Vol 29 in the 1838 Fisher edition reprints later entries from the fourth series, as these stories originally appeared in Scott's Magnum Opus 48 volume editions, the first from 1816. With the influential “Magnum Opus” editions from 1829–1833 by Robert Cadell, serving as the basis for later reprinted published sets like Fisher's.
Scott’s Peveril of the Peak is a historical novel set around the popish plot of 1678, and it follows tensions between Cavalier and Puritan families in Derbyshire, London intrigue, and a romance involving Sir Geoffrey Peverils son Julian, Alice Bridgenorth, and the mysterious Fenella Zara. In broad terms, it is about political suspicion, religious conflict, mistaken identities, and how private loyalties get entangled with public upheaval.