The Antiquary and The Tapestried Chamber and Old Mortality

The Antiquary and The Tapestried Chamber and Old Mortality

Sir Walter Scott, book's author

New York: The Waverly Book Co.

1898

Madison Theodore researched and wrote the event description in 2018.

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Literature

SPECIAL PR5317 .A5 1898

English, book's contents
English, event description

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Transcription of event description:

THE ANTIQUARY AND THE TAPESTRIED CHAMBER AND OLD MORTALITY | SIR WALTER SCOTT | NEW YORK: THE WAVERLY BOOK CO. | 1898

This book by Sir Walter Scott features brown grosgrain cloth covers with stamped black thistles and a double line black border on the upper cover. The thistle pattern is known as semé. The thistles continue onto the spine, and cover the lower three-quarters. The upper portion of the spine contains a black rectangular border with the series title and two of the titles included in the book. The back cover is plain.

The Waverley Novels are a series written by Sir Walter Scott, and this volume contains The Antiquary and Old Mortality, as well as the short story, “The Tapestried Chamber or The Lady in the Sacque.” Thistles are used on the front cover and spine because both The Antiquary and Old Mortality are set in Scotland where thistles are the national flower.

This book is one of 3,000 volumes donated by Mrs. Marifrances Engelhardt after Hurricane Matthew (2016) flooded her home. About 240 books are in Special Collections. During WWII she served in Spain in the diplomatic corps and married a well-known foreign correspondent, through whom she met Ernest Hemingway and Orson Wells. Sometime after her second marriage she settled in St. Augustine. When shown a book from her collection, despite her advanced years, she remembered who in her family owned it or gave it to her, and whether or not she enjoyed reading it. Mrs. Engelhardt died on April 18, 2017.

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