Old Mortality (by Sir Walter Scott, Bart.)

• circa 193o's.  436 pages.
• Published by The Walter Scott Publishing Co Ltd. New York.
• Hardcover with green boards.
• Fair plus condition.  Moderate age wear, bumpy, fading, foxing and tanning.  Small spilt inside front board at hinge.  Name, address and date (sept 1935) on free front end paper.

Old Mortality is set in 1679 against the backdrop of the miltary campaign waged by John Graham of Claverhouse's government forces against a Covenanting army.  The Covenanters had risen against Charles II in protest against the reintroduction of Episcopalian church government.  

The hero, Henry Morton of Milnwood, a moderate Presbyterian, is arrested by Claverhouse's troops for harbouring John Burley of Balfour, a Covenanting friend of his father.    Much adventure follows.....