Presented in this lot is a Rare School Edition of, "The Lady Of The Lake", by Sir Walter Scott, Clark & Maynard, Publishers, No. 5 Barklay Street, New York. Circa 1863 - 1875. Quill pen inscription on front endpaper is dated 1879 presumably by the owner at the time. Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, including the novels Ivanhoe, Rob Roy and the narrative poems The Lady of the Lake and Marmion. He had a major impact on European and American literature. The Lady of the Lake marked the pinnacle of Scott's popularity as a poet. With 25,000 copies sold in eight months, it broke all records for the sale of poetry. Known as a romantic poem, it tells about love and honor amidst a bitter rivalry between King James V and the Douglas family. The book is set in the Trossachs region of Scotland and it is composed of six cantos, each concern the action of a single day. The poem was tremendously influential in the nineteenth century, and inspired the Highland Revival, part of the wider European Romantic Movement, which was partly a reaction against the Age of Enlightenment, emphasizing individual, national and emotional responses, moving beyond Renaissance and Classicist models, particularly to the Middle Ages. In the arts, Romanticism manifested itself in literature and drama in the adoption of the mythical bard, Ossian, the exploration of national poetry in the work of Robert Burns and in the historical novels of Walter Scott. Scott also had a major impact on the development of a national Scottish drama. Art was heavily influenced by Ossian and a new view of the Highlands as the location of a wild and dramatic landscape. Scott profoundly affected architecture through his re-building of Abbotsford House in the early nineteenth century, which set off the boom in the Scots Baronial revival. Intellectually, Scott and others played a part in the development of historiography and the idea of the historical imagination. Romanticism also influenced science, particularly the life sciences, geology, optics and astronomy, giving Scotland a prominence in these areas that continued into the late nineteenth century. Scott also played a major part in defining Scottish and British politics, helping to create a romanticized view of Scotland and the Highlands that fundamentally changed Scottish national identity. This rare cloth covered hardbound paperwrapped book is in amazingly good condition considering its almost 150 year plus old age. The covers particularly exhibit age and use related scuffing and tattering of the edges with the paperwrapped title front cover and rear cover advertisement for, "Thomson's New Grader Series" early all intact, with virtually no fading to the original printing ink. Pages have age tanning and minimal foxing exhibited, no other obvious marring noted. Measures 4"W x 6"L x .5"D