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AN INTRODUCTION TO EACH NOVEL,

stated, but also enriched by the pencils of the emninent Artists AND NOTES, HISTORICAL AND ILLUSTRATIVE, BY who have been engaged to embellish it; among these may be THE AUTHOR.

named,

DAVID WILKIE. R.A. ; E Embellished with Frontispieces and Vignette Titles, from Designs

LANDSERR, R.A.; C. R. Les

LIE, R. A.; ABRAHAM COOPER, R.A.; A. E. CHalos, R.A. ; Executed expressly for the present Edition, by the

G. S. NEWTON, A.R.A.; E. P. STEPHANOPP; H. COR. MOST EMINENT ARTISTS.

BOULD; WILLIAM KIDD; J. STANFIELD; Jonx BURNST ;)

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The engravings will be executed on sterl, by There are few circumstances in the history of letters more re- CHARLES HEATH; WILLIAM FINDEN; CHARLES ROLLes remarkable than the rise and progress of the WAVERLEY No- JAMES MITCHELL; F. ENGLEHEART; AMBROSE WARREN ; VELS. Unlike most other productions of genius, they had ROBERT GRAVES; J. C. EdwakDs; W. J. Coorx; w. no infancy to struggle with, but reached at once the highest Ensom; DAVENPORT: SHENTON; DUNCAN; MILLER : point of public favour,-a station which they have ever since

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PLAN OF THE WORK. in a great degree, to the wealthier ranks of society, the Proprie- 1. The size to be royal 18mo, printed in the very best manner, tors have resolved to place them within the reach of readers of and hot pressed ; each volume to contain about 100 pages, price all classes, by republishing them in a less costly, but at the same 5s. done up in cloth. time more elegant shape, and with the additional advantage of a II. The publication to commence on 1st June next; and to be periodical issue.

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page, both containing subjects illustrative of the Norel to which In this undertaking they have had the cheerful co-operation of they are attached. the Author himself, who has not only revised every one of the IV. The Work will be completed in Forty VOLUMEs, comNovels, but has added Explanatory Notes, and a new Introduc-mencing wiih WAVERLEY, and closing with WooDSTOCK. The tion to each of them.

Author's additions will form about two of these Forty Volumes The nature and extent of these corrections and additions will *** The Edition is so far advanced at press, that regularity of be best understood by giving entire, from Volume First, The publication may be depended on; and, to such subscribers as may AUTHOR'S ADVERTISEMENT.

wish to have some of the Novels

complete on the appearanee It has been the occasional occupation of the Author of Waver

of the first volume of each respectively, the Publishers have to ley, for several years past, to revise and correct the voluminous

state, that the whole of WAVERLEY may be had on the first of series of Novels which pass under that name; in order that, if June, in 2 vols. for 10s.

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GUY MANNERING, in 2 vols, on the 1st of August.

THE ANTIQUARY, in 2 vols, on the 1st of October. lic favour with which they have been honoured ever since their first appearance. For a long period, however, it seemed likely

Rob Roy, in 2 vols, on the 1st of December. that the improved and illustrated edition which he meditated

As well as such others, during the progress of the Edition, se would be a posthumous publication. But the course of events,

its arrangement enables the Publishers to deliver in complet

Tales. which occasioned the disclosure of the Author's name, having, in a great m asure, restored to him a sort of parental control over

The public are respectfully

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Engravings at the premises of the Publishers, a corrected, and, he hopes, an improved form, while life and

And at Moon, Boys, and GRAVES, Printsellers to his Majesty, health permit the task of revising and illustrating them. Such

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