#Waverley

[uwmspeccoll]

Marbled Monday

This Monday we're taking a look at a 6-volume set of the Waverley novels written by Scottish historian, poet, novelist, and playwright Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) and originally published between 1814 and 1831. These volumes each include more than one of the novels in the Waverley "series," including what is perhaps Scott's most famous novel Ivanhoe. These volumes were published in the late 1800s, with a best guestimate of around 1880, by DeWolfe, Fiske & Co. in Boston. The Waverley novels gave Scott a reputation as the founder of the historical novel genre, as each novel is set in a different historical time period.

The books themselves are each half-bound in tan leather and marbled paper. The top, bottom, and fore-edge of each book has also been marbled in the same pattern, and the books feature the same marbling on their endpapers! Marbling everywhere! The marbling is a green base with red, blue, white, and yellow veining and white spots sprinkled over top. This is a stone pattern that is meant to look closer to actual marble than the more intricate combed marbling patterns. You can also see the wear on the outer covers of the books and see how dull and faded it is compared to the marbling on the endpapers.

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

#Marbled Monday #Waverley novels #Waverley #Sir Walter Scott #Ivanhoe #DeWolfe Fiske & Co. #marbling #marbled paper #Alice

[frenchcurious]

Immeuble Résidentiel Années 1930 - 3/42 Victoria Street, Waverley NSW 2024, Australie. Architect inconnu (Photo courtesy: other_peopleshomes [IG]). - source Sally Jo via Art Deco.

#waverley #Australie.

[hildeeveraert]

Harold Cazneaux, Fishing off the rocks, Waverley, 1904

#Harold Cazneaux #Fishing off the rocks #Waverley #1904

[qlqniel]

Evening departures

Edinburgh, February 2017

#photographers on tumblr #original photography #photography #architecture photography #edinburgh #scotland #waverley #train station #evening light #sunset #pink clouds #19th century architecture #architecture

[tcr55]

Yesterday I posted a pic of an ex-cemetery. This morning I went for an ‘active’ one!

Sydney’s Waverley Cemetery has a view to die for.😉

#sydney #Waverley #cemetery #dawn #clouds

[talesofsorrowandofruin]

A (Hopefully) Exciting Announcement

Like most of Tumblr I’m reading Dracula Daily. I’m also currently struggling to read Waverley by Sir Walter Scott. So I’ve decided, what better way to motivate myself to read it than to turn it into a Dracula Daily-style newsletter?

Here’s the result:

https://waverleydaily.substack.com/

I’ll e-mail a chapter a day starting on 1st December 2022. Please subscribe if you’re interested in Scottish historical novels, the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, Sir Walter Scott’s novels, or simply want to read a classic novel in (semi-)manageable chunks!

One-off tagging mutuals who might be interested in this: @misscrawfords, @euphoniouspandemonium, *awkward pause as I realise I don’t know many classic novel fans on here*, @copper-dragon-in-disguise

#how do I tag this #sir walter scott #waverley #classic novels #substack

[apieters]

Edward Waverley, the Friend of the Sons of Ivor

'Callum,' said the Chief, 'call Shemus an Snachad' (James of the Needle). This was the hereditary tailor of Vich lan Vohr. 'Shemus, Mr. Waverley is to wear the cath dath (battle colour, or tartan); his trews must be ready in four hours. You know the measure of a well-made man—two double nails to the small of the leg—'

'Eleven from haunch to heel, seven round the waist. I give your honour leave to hang Shemus, if there's a pair of sheers in the Highlands that has a baulder sneck than her's ain at the cumadh an truais' (shape of the trews).

'Get a plaid of Mac-Ivor tartan and sash,' continued the Chieftain, 'and a blue bonnet of the Prince's pattern, at Mr. Mouat's in the Crames. My short green coat, with silver lace and silver buttons, will fit him exactly, and I have never worn it. Tell Ensign Maccombich to pick out a handsome target from among mine. The Prince has given Mr. Waverley broadsword and pistols, I will furnish him with a dirk and purse; add but a pair of low- heeled shoes, and then, my dear Edward (turning to him), you will be a complete son of Ivor.'

…

Our hero having now fairly assumed the 'garb of old Gaul,' well calculated as it was to give an appearance of strength to a figure which, though tall and well-made, was rather elegant than robust, I hope my fair readers will excuse him if he looked at himself in the mirror more than once, and could not help acknowledging that the reflection seemed that of a very handsome young fellow. In fact, there was no disguising it. His light-brown hair—for he wore no periwig, notwithstanding the universal fashion of the time—became the bonnet which surmounted it. His person promised firmness and agility, to which the ample folds of the tartan added an air of dignity. His blue eye seemed of that kind,

Which melted in love, and which kindled in war;

and an air of bashfulness, which was in reality the effect of want of habitual intercourse with the world, gave interest to his features, without injuring their grace or intelligence.

'He's a pratty man, a very pratty man,' said Evan Dhu (now Ensign Maccombich) to Fergus's buxom landlady.

'He's vera weel,' said the Widow Flockhart, 'but no naething sae weel-far'd as your colonel, ensign.'

-Sir Walter Scott, Waverley, or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since

I’ve wanted to do a series of portraits, for a long time, where I bring to life characters from novels I like based on their descriptions in the books, and now I’ve done my first one—Edward Waverley, the main character of Sir Walter Scott’s first novel, Waverley, an English gentleman who sided with Bonnie Prince Charlie in the Jacobite Uprising of 1745. In the course of his adventures, he befriends Fergus MacIvor, the chief of the Clan MacIvor, and gets adopted into the clan. For the rest of his life and beyond, he was known amongst the Highlanders as the “Friend of the Sons of Ivor.”

Here’s an alternate version without the plaid, so the rest of his outfit can be seen:

#sketch #colored sketch #cartoon #cartoon characters #fanart #sir walter scott #waverley #edward waverley #character art #Novel Portraits #Scottish highlands #trews #Broadsword #tartan #clan macivor #The friend of the sons of Ivor

[shanemadejed]

Can I just say ryan looked very cute in his lil orange hat

#ghost files #Waverley #Ryan bergara #Shane madej

[pargery]

"... cleaving his skull with their broadswords, satisfied the world that the unfortunate gentleman had actually brains, the end of his life thus giving proof of a fact greatly doubted during its progress."

--Sir Walter Scott, _Waverley_ volume 2, p150

#sir walter scott #Waverley #brains #1745 #David Threipland of Fingask #Balmawhapple

[aliteraryprincess]

July Wrap Up

Well, July has flown by. I think it felt short to me because I was away for the first two weeks and it seemed like that shouldn’t have counted as part of the month. 😆 Hopefully August will go a little slower because I would like to savor what’s left of my summer.

Books Read: 8

Another good reading month! I’m proud of myself for not falling into a slump yet. My favorite new read was Marriage, and I had a lovely time rereading Sense and Sensibility. My least favorite was Cometh Up as a Flower, which I found utterly tedious.  

Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick - 2.5 stars

Beach Read by Emily Henry - 4 stars

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen - 5 stars ®

Favorite Poems by William Wordsworth - 3 stars

Cometh Up as a Flower by Rhoda Broughton - 2 stars

Marriage by Susan Ferrier - 4.5 stars

Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest by Anne McClintock - 4 stars

Waverley by Sir Walter Scott - 3 stars

On Tumblr:

Not much here (but better than the next section!). There are a bunch of things I’ve been tagged in that I want to do. I just have to actually do them. 😆 August will have to be the month for that.

June Wrap Up

LGBT+ Book Recommendations W/O a Romance Focus

On the Blog:

We’re just not going to talk about this...

On YouTube:

And there are things here! I gave my first Fairy Tale Friday video a go (though I will still be doing it on my blog when I actually get back to posting there). And I put together a list of Victorian reads for beginners.

The Mid-Year Book Freak Out Tag

Victorian Literature for Beginners

Fairy Tale Friday: Juniper & Thorn by Ava Reid

Currently Reading 7/19/22

June Wrap Up - 10 books!

2022 Mid Year Reading Stats

The Persuasion Book Tag 

#booklr #book photography #july wrap up #monthly wrap up #books #wrap up #cometh up as a flower #rhoda broughton #waverley #sir walter scott #marriage #susan ferrier #william wordsworth #sense and sensibility #jane austen

[bluesman56]

The Waverly at night by Tony

#Glasgow #Scotland #britain #clyde #europe #night #reflection #river #river clyde #waterfront #2020 09 14 214554 #ship #waverley #flickr

[abbiistabbii]

GUISE I was going to a Job interview and THERE WAS A STEAM TRAIN!

#steam train #trains #train #waverley

[kpgimpactor]

babey boy

#covering his eyes w his tail!!! that’s cute behavior sir #last vet trip he got compliments on his rainbow collar #babey babeyyy look at my baby boy #waverley

[life-of-a-wannabe-photographer]

#edinburgh #waverley #train #ceiling #photography #light

[noconcessions]

#Waverley

[tcr55]

Waverley cemetery is a great place for dawn shots, and if you’re early enough you can get great colours.

Pity you have to die to get such a beautiful Sydney view.

#sydney #dawn #clouds #Waverley #cemetery #tombstone #water #ocean #landscape