Ivanhoe (Easton Press edition) is a handsomely bound collector’s volume of Sir Walter Scott’s seminal 1819 historical adventure, a cornerstone of chivalric romance and medieval revivalism. This Easton Press edition, part of their library of classics, features the full text of Scott’s tale of knights, Saxons, and Normans in 12th-century England, presented in a luxurious format: full genuine leather binding, 22-karat gold accents, moiré silk endpapers, and archival-quality paper.
The novel follows Wilfred of Ivanhoe, a disinherited Saxon knight returning from the Crusades to a England fractured by ethnic strife between the conquered Saxons and ruling Normans. His journey intertwines with iconic figures like Robin Hood (here called Locksley), the noble Jewess Rebecca, and the villainous Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert, culminating in jousting tournaments, castle sieges, and trials by combat. Scott’s vivid prose and romanticized history popularized medieval tropes still echoed in modern fantasy.
