THE BLACK WATCH
Or, Forty-Second Highlanders

Published by George Routledge, London, undatd, c1880. A New Edition. Scarce Yellow-Back edition. 8vo, hardback, paper-covered boards and spine. 391 pages.

CONDITION
A good copy and has survived well for a Yellow-Back as they tend to turn up in bad condition. Light rubbing to binding and a little wear to the corners. All contents present including adverts at the rear. Endpapers good. Overall a good copy.

A yellow-back or yellowback is a cheap novel which was published in Britain in the second half of the 19th century. They were occasionally called "mustard-plaster" novels. Developed in the 1840s to compete with the "penny dreadful", yellow-backs were marketed as entertaining reading.

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