"The Pirate" by Sir Walter Scott - Archibald Constable, London - 1822 first UK edition first issue - 15cmx13cm - complete in 3 volumes - condition: rebound in half leather binding, with spines worn off, and some boards detached, text in very good condition, with half titles bound in, complete. The Pirate (published at the end of 1821 with the date 1822) is one of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott, based roughly on the life of John Gow who features as Captain Cleveland.[1] The setting is the southern tip of the main island of Shetland (which Scott visited in 1814), towards the end of the 17th century, with 1689 as the likely date of the main incidents