Physical description

Waverley Novels Peveril of the Peak- 2 Vol 29, Light brown hardcover lettering in black text.
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Publisher: Fisher Son & Co
Date: 1838

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

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

Summary

The subject volume of Waverley Novels part 2 Vol 29 published by Fisher Son & Co (1838) is part of a collected 48 volume set of Sir Walter Scott's works, containing various stories. Vol 32 in the 1836 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 Peveril’s 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.