Title: Philip Rollo, or, The Scottish Musketeers

Author: James Grant

Publisher: George Routledge, London - Railway Library

Date Published: 1857

Description: Scarce original pictorial yellowback hardback. Routledge Railway Library Edition.  504 pages. Adverts to endpapers.  Bumping, loss, and wear to the extremities, with spine missing (see pictures).  Binding tender but holding sound and square. Signature to title page.  

Scarce complete long novel concerning Scottish Soldiers of Fortune in the Europe of the Thirty Years War. 

James Grant (1882-1887) was a Scottish soldier and writer. His novels are primarily set in Scotland, and are very well-written and plotted, owing something to the style of his kinsman, Sir Walter Scott. Many of the novels display Scottish Jacobite sympathies - in the preface to The White Cockade, Grant is at pains to say that "a poet, or a reader, may be a Jacobite in literature, without being in the smallest degree a Jacobite in politics". His excellent work deserves to be more celebrated.

Provenance: We have recently acquired a large private collection of yellowback books. These books were published in the Victorian era and aimed to provide entertaining reading at a relatively cheap price. They have yellow boards and colourful chromolithographic illustrated covers. Although produced in large numbers, they were regarded as disposable at the time, and survivals can be relatively scarce.

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