The four volume first edition of Sir Walter Scott's novel 'The Heart of Midlothian', the second work in his 'Tales of My Landlord' series. to front endsheet, some scuffing to leather at head of spine, otherwise an attractive, sound copy. A Good-only copy, with yellowed transparent tape applied to spine ends, loosened hinges, previous owner's inked info. In Everyman's style 1 maroon flexible leatherette variant binding with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt titling & floral decorations to cover and spine, ornate Knowles woodcut illustrations to title and frontis pages and to endpapers, top edge gilt, fragile sewn-in silk ribbon placemarker and rounded corners of leaves. Entry 134 in Everyman's Library Fiction series, edited by Ernest Rhys. With a brief editor's introduction and glossary of archaic terms at rear of volume. Chiefly set in Edinburgh, the story is set against the Porteous Riots of 1736. An undated, likely First Everyman's Library edition of Sir Walter Scott's historical novel, the seventh in his Waverley series. The criminal fraternity used to spit on the door of the tolbooth as they passed by, and this tradition persists with many Edinburghers still spitting on the Heart on walking past.Flexible Leatherette. The tolbooth features in Sir Walter Scott's novel, also called The Heart of Midlothian, published in 1818. The heart we see today set into the Royal Mile records the position of the 15th Century Tolbooth of Edinburgh, demolished in 1817, which was the administrative centre of the town, prison and one of several sites of public execution. The past connection between Edinburgh and Midlothian can also be seen through the old Midlothian County Chambers, located on George IV Bridge, temporarily used as a visitor centre for the new Scottish Parliament (1999 - 2004) and continue through, for example, the football team, Heart of Midlothian (or simply 'Hearts'), based at Tynecastle Stadium. Despite Edinburgh having been very much the centre of Midlothian for hundreds of years, local government boundary changes in 1974 established a separation between Edinburgh and its Midlothian hinterland. Giles Kirk in Edinburgh is the Heart of Midlothian, which consists of a heart-shape set in the cobble-stones of the street. Incongruously located just to the west of St.
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