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ADVERTISEMENTS,

The General Preface to the new Edition, and the Introductory Notices to each separate work, will contain an account of such

Connected with Science, Literature, and the Arts. circumstances attending the first publication of the Novels and

WAVERLEY NOVELS.

On the first of June will be published,

INSCRIBED BY PERMISSION

To the King's Most Gracious Majesty,
VOLUME FIRST

OF A NEW EDITION OF

THE WAVERLEY NOVELS;

TO BE CONTINUED IN MONTHLY VOLUMES, REVISED AND
CORRECTED,

WITH A GENERAL PREFACE,

AN INTRODUCTION TO EACH NOVEL,

AND NOTES, HISTORICAL AND ILLUSTRATIVE, BY
THE AUTHOR.

Embellished with Frontispieces and Vignette Titles, from Designs
Executed expressly for the present Edition, by the
MOST EMINENT ARTISTS.

NOTICE BY THE PUBLISHERS.

There are few circumstances in the history of letters more remarkable than the rise and progress of the WAVERLEY NOVELS. Unlike most other productions of genius, they had no infancy to struggle with, but reached at once the highest point of public favour,-a station which they have ever since maintained with undiminished popularity.

The circulation of these works having been hitherto confined, in a great degree, to the wealthier ranks of society, the Proprietors have resolved to place them within the reach of readers of all classes, by republishing them in a less costly, but at the same time more elegant shape, and with the additional advantage of a periodical issue.

The Publishers have therefore the honour of announcing the speedy commencement of a NEW EDITION, to be published in MONTHLY VOLUMES.

In this undertaking they have had the cheerful co-operation of the Author himself, who has not only revised every one of the Novels, but has added Explanatory Notes, and a new Introduction to each of them.

The nature and extent of these corrections and additions will be best understood by giving entire, from Volume First, The

AUTHOR'S ADVERTISEMENT.

It has been the occasional occupation of the Author of Waverley, for several years past, to revise and correct the voluminous series of Novels which pass under that name; in order that, if they should ever appear as his avowed productions, he might render them in some degree deserving of a continuance of the public favour with which they have been honoured ever since their first appearance. For a long period, however, it seemed likely that the improved and illustrated edition which he meditated would be a posthumous publication. But the course of events, which occasioned the disclosure of the Author's name, having, in a great measure, restored to him a sort of parental control over these Works, he is naturally induced to give them to the press in a corrected, and, he hopes, an improved form, while life and health permit the task of revising and illustrating them. being his purpose, it is necessary to say a few words on the plan of the proposed Edition. Such

In stating it to be revised and corrected, it is not to be inferred that any attempt is made to alter the tenor of the stories, the character of the actors, or the spirit of the dialogue. There is no doubt ample room for emendation in all these points, but where the tree falls it must lie. Any attempt to obviate criticism, however just, by altering a work already in the hands of the public, is generally unsuccessful. reader still desires some air of vraisemblance, and does not relish In the most improbable fiction, the that the incidents of a tale familiar to him should be altered to suit the taste of critics, or the caprice of the author himself. This process of feeling is so natural, that it may be observed even in

children, who cannot endure that a nursery story should be repeated to them differently from the manner in which it was first told.

But without altering, in the slightest degree, either the story, or the mode of telling it, the Author has taken this opportunity to correct errors of the press and slips of the pen. That such should exist cannot be wondered at, when it is considered that the Publishers found it their interest to hurry through the press a succession of the early editions of the various Novels, and that the Author had not the usual opportunity of revision. It is hoped that the present edition will be found free from errors of that accidental kind.

Tales, as may appear interesting in themselves, or proper to be communicated to the public. The Author also proposes to publish, on this occasion, the various legends, family traditions, or obscure historical faets, which have formed the ground-work of these Novels, and to give some account of the places where the scenes are laid, when these are altogether, or in part, real; as well as a statement of particular incidents founded on fact; together with a more copious Glossary, and Notes explanatory of the ancient customs, and popular superstitions, referred to in the Romances.

Upon the whole, it is hoped that the Waverley Novels, in their new dress, will not be found to have lost any part of their attractions in consequence of receiving illustrations by the Author, and undergoing his careful revision.

ABBOTSFORD, January 1829.

This Edition will not only be improved in the manner just stated, but also enriched by the pencils of the eminent Artists who have been engaged to embellish it; among these may be named,

DAVID WILKIE, R.A.: EDWIN LANDSEER, R.A.; C. R. LES-
LIE, R.A.; ABRAHAM COOPER, R.A.; A. E. CHALON, R.A.;
G. S. NEWTON, A.R.A.; E. P. STEPHANOFF; H. COR-
BOULD WILLIAM KIDD; J. STANFIELD; JOHN BURNET;
and R. P. BONNINGTON.

The engravings will be executed on steel, by

CHARLES HEATH; WILLIAM FINDEN; CHARLES ROLLS;
JAMES MITCHELL; F. ENGLEHEART; AMBROSE WARREN;
ROBERT GRAVES; J. C. EDWARDS; W. J. Cookя; W.
ENSON; DAVENPORT: SHENTON; DUNCAN; MILLER;
and other eminent Engravers.

PLAN OF THE WORK.

I. The size to be royal 18mo, printed in the very best manner. and hot-pressed; each volume to contain about 400 pages, price 5s. done up in cloth.

II. The publication to commence on 1st June next; and to be continuet regularly, on the first day of each month, till the whole is completed.

they are attached.
III. Each volume to have a Frontispiece and Vignette title-
page, both containing subjects illustrative of the Novel to which

mencing with WAVERLEY, and closing with WOODSTOCK. The
IV. The Work will be completed in FORTY VOLUMES, COM-
Author's additions will form about two of these Forty Volumes.

The Edition is so far advanced at press, that regularity of of the first volume of each respectively, the Publishers have to publication may be depended on; and, to suen subscribers as may state, that the whole of WAVERLEY may be had on the first of wish to have some of the Novels complete on the appearance June, in 2 vols. for 10s.

And, in like manner,
GUY MANNERING, in 2 vols. on the 1st of August.
THE ANTIQUARY, in 2 vols. on the 1st of October.
ROB ROY, in 2 vols. on the 1st of December.

As well as such others, during the progress of the Edition, as its arrangement enables the Publishers to deliver in complete Tales.

The public are respectfully requested to inspect the Designs and Engravings at the premises of the Publishers,

And at Moon, Boys, and GRAVES, Printsellers to his Majesty, 6, Pall Mall, London, by whom they will be sold separately, as will be afterwards announced.

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Connected with Science, Literature, and the Arts.

WAVERLEY NOVELS.

On the first of June will be published,

INSCRIBED BY PERMISSION

To the King's Most Gracious Majesty, VOLUME FIRST

OF A NEW EDITION OF

THE WAVERLEY NOVELS;

TO BE CONTINUED IN MONTHLY VOLUMES, REVISED AND CORRECTED,

WITH A GENERAL PREFACE,

AN INTRODUCTION TO EACH NOVEL,

AND NOTES, HISTORICAL AND ILLUSTRATIVE, BY
THE AUTHOR.

Embellished with Frontispieces and Vignette Titles, from Designs
Executed expressly for the present Edition, by the
MOST EMINENT ARTISTS.

NOTICE BY THE PUBLISHERS.

There are few circumstances in the history of letters more remarkable than the rise and progress of the WAVERLEY NOVELS. Unlike most other productions of genius, they had no infancy to struggle with, but reached at once the highest point of public favour,-a station which they have ever since maintained with undiminished popularity.

The circulation of these works having been hitherto confined, in a great degree, to the wealthier ranks of society, the Proprietors have resolved to place them within the reach of readers of all classes, by republishing them in a less costly, but at the same time more elegant shape, and with the additional advantage of a periodical issue.

The Publishers have therefore the honour of announcing the speedy commencement of a NEW EDITION, to be published in MONTHLY VOLUMES.

In this undertaking they have had the cheerful co-operation of the Author himself, who has not only revised every one of the Novels, but has added Explanatory Notes, and a new Introduction to each of them.

The nature and extent of these corrections and additions will be best understood by giving entire, from Volume First, The AUTHOR'S ADVERTISEMENT.

It has been the occasional occupation of the Author of Waverley, for several years past, to revise and correct the voluminous series of Novels which pass under that name; in order that, if they should ever appear as his avowed productions, he might ren

der them in some degree deserving of a continuance of the pub

lie favour with which they have been honoured ever since their first appearance. For a long period, however, it seemed likely that the improved and illustrated edition which he meditated would be a posthumous publication. But the course of events, which occasioned the disclosure of the Author's name, having, in a great measure, restored to him a sort of parental control over these Works, he is naturally induced to give them to the press in a corrected, and, he hopes, an improved form, while life and health permit the task of revising and illustrating them. Such being his purpose, it is necessary to say a few words on the plan of the proposed Edition.

In stating it to be revised and corrected, it is not to be inferred that any attempt is made to alter the tenor of the stories, the character of the actors, or the spirit of the dialogue. There is no doubt ample room for emendation in all these points,-but where the tree falls it must lie. Any attempt to obviate criticism, however just, by altering a work already in the hands of the public, is generally unsuccessful. In the most improbable fiction, the reader still desires some air of vraisemblance, and does not relish that the incidents of a tale familiar to him should be altered to suit the taste of critics, or the caprice of the author himself. This process of feeling is so natural, that it may be observed even in children, who cannot endure that a nursery story should be repeated to them differently from the manner in which it was first told.

But without altering, in the slightest degree, either the story, or the mode of telling it, the Author has taken this opportunity to correct errors of the press and slips of the pen. That such should exist cannot be wondered at, when it is considered that the Publishers found it their interest to hurry through the press a succession of the early editions of the various Novels, and that the Author had not the usual opportunity of revision. It is hoped that the present edition will be found free from errors of that accidental kind.

The Author has also ventured to make some emendations of a different character, which, without being such apparent deviations from the original stories as to disturb the reader's fold associations, will, he thinks, add something to the spirit of the dialogue, narrative, or description. These consist in occasional pruning where the language is redundant, compression where the style is loose, infusion of vigour where it is languid, the exchange of less forcible for more appropriate epithets-slight alterations, in short, like the last touches of an artist, which contribute to heighten and finish the picture, though an inexperienced eye can hardly detect in what they consist.

The General Preface to the new Edition, and the Introductory Notices to each separate work, will contain an account of such circumstances attending the first publication of the Novels and Tales, as may appear interesting in themselves, or proper to be communicated to the public. The Author also proposes to publish, on this occasion, the various legends, family traditions, or obscure historical facts, which have formed the ground-work of these Novels, and to give some account of the places where the scenes are laid, when these are altogether, or in part, real; as well as a statement of particular incidents founded on fact; together with a more copious Glossary, and Notes explanatory of the ancient customs, and popular superstitions, referred to in the Romances.

Upon the whole, it is hoped that the Waverley Novels, in their new dress, will not be found to have lost any part of their attractions in consequence of receiving illustrations by the Author, and undergoing his careful revision.

ABBOTSFORD, January 1829.

This Edition will not only be improved in the manner just stated, but also enriched by the pencils of the eminent Artists who have been engaged to embellish it; among these may be named,

DAVID WILKIE, R.A.; EDWIN LANDSEER, R.A.; C. R. LES-
LIE, R.A.; ABRAHAM COOPER, R.A.: A. E. CHALON, R.A.;
G. S. NEWTON, A.R.A.; E. P. STEPHANOFF; H. COR-
BOULD; WILLIAM KIDD; J. STANFIELD; JOHN BURNET;
and R. P. BONNINGTON.

The engravings will be executed on steel, by
CHARLES HEATH; WILLIAM FINDEN; CHARLES ROLLS;
JAMES MITCHELL; F. ENGLEHEART; AMBROSE WARREN;
ROBERT GRAVES; J. C. EDWARDS; W. J. COOKE; W.
ENSOM; DAVENPORT: SHENTON; DUNCAN; MILLER;
and other eminent Engravers.

PLAN OF THE WORK,

I. The size to be royal 18mo, printed in the very best manner, and hot-pressed; each volume to contain about 400 pages, price 5s. done up in cloth.

II. The publication to commence on 1st June next; and to be continued regularly, on the first day of each month, till the whole is completed.

III. Each volume to have a Frontispiece and Vignette titlepage, both containing subjects illustrative of the Novel to which they are attached.

IV. The Work will be completed in FORTY VOLUMES, commencing with WAVERLEY, and closing with WOODSTOCK. The Author's additions will form about two of these Forty Volumes.

** The Edition is so far advanced at press, that regularity of publication may be depended on; and, to such subscribers as may wish to have some of the Novels complete on the appearance of the first volume of each respectively, the Publishers have to state, that the whole of WAVERLEY may be had on the first of

June, in 2 vols. for 10s.

And, in like manner,
GUY MANNERING, in 2 vols. on the 1st of August.
THE ANTIQUARY, in 2 vols. on the 1st of October.
ROB ROY, in 2 vols. on the 1st of December.

As well as such others, during the progress of the Edition, as its arrangement enables the Publishers to deliver in complete Tales.

The public are respectfully requested to inspect the Designs and Engravings at the premises of the Publishers,

And at Moox, Boys, and GRAVES, Printsellers to his Majesty, 6, Pall Mall, London, by whom they will be sold separately, as will be afterwards announced.

Printed for CADELL & Co. 41, St Andrew Square, Edinburgh; and to be had of every Bookseller throughout the Kingdom.

BUTLER'S POWDERS,

For producing an Effervescing

COOLING APERIENT DRAUGHT. THESE Powders are now very generally known (and as generally approved,) for producing an extremely refreshing and pleasant effervescing Drink, and at the same time a safe, mild, and Cooling Aperient, peculiarly adapted to relieve Indigestion, Heartburn, and Nausea, and counteract Acidity in the Stomach. If frequently taken, it will generally obviate the necessity of having recourse to Calomel, Epsom Salts, and other strong and nauseous medicines, which often debilitate the system without producing the desired effects; and when taken after too free an indulgence in the luxuries of the Table, particularly after too much wine, the usual disagreeable effects will be prevented. There being numerous inferior imitations of these Powders vended, it is necessary to observe, that the Preparer's name and address," Butler, 75, Prince's Street, Edinburgh," are printed in the Label and Bill accompanying each Box of the genuine Powders. Sold in Boxes only, at 2s. 9d., or in neat cases for the Country, or Exportation, 10s. 6d. cach. The cases for Exportation are lined with Tin, and carefully soldered up, and thus the Powders may be preserved for any length of time, in any cli.

mate.

Sold by the Preparer as above mentioned; also by BUTLER & Co. 4, Cheapside, Corner of St Paul's, London; and the principal Druggists, and others, in every Town of the United Kingdom."

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"Methinks it were a happy life

To be no better than a homely swain !"
SHAKSPEARE.

Edinburgh: CONSTABLE & Co., 19, Waterloo Place; and
HURST, CHANCE, and Co. London.

NEW NOVEL.

Just published, 3 vols. post 8vo, price £1, 4. boards,
THE LAIRDS OF FIFE.
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JACOBITE MINSTRELSY; a Collection of

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of Literature, Science, and the Arts; comprehending under one general arrangement the whole of the Scientific and Entertaining Articles from all the Reviews, Magazines, and Journals, published during the months of November, December, January, and February, 1828-9. The whole carefully compiled, digested, and arranged.

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ADVERTISEMENTS,

In stating it to be revised and corrected, it is not to be inferred that any attempt is made to alter the tenor of the stories, the cha

Connected with Science, Literature, and the Arts. racter of the actors, or the spirit of the dialogue. There is no

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SOLFEGGI, 8s. by the same Author.

SEGUR'S HISTORY OF RUSSIA. This day is published, in 8vo, 10s. 6d. boards,

doubt ample room for emendation in all these points,-but where the tree falls it must lie. Any attempt to obviate criticism, however just, by altering a work already in the hands of the public, is generally unsuccessful. In the most improbable fiction, the reader still desires some air of vraisemblance, and does not relish

that the incidents of a tale familiar to him should be altered to suit the taste of critics, or the caprice of the author himself. This children, who cannot endure that a nursery story should be reprocess of feeling is so natural, that it may be observed even in peated to them differently from the manner in which it was first

told.

But without altering, in the slightest degree, either the story, or the mode of telling it, the Author has taken this opportunity to correct errors of the press and slips of the pen. That such should exist cannot be wondered at, when it is considered that the Publishers found it their interest to hurry through the press a succession of the early editions of the various Novels, and that

HISTORY of RUSSIA, and of PETER the the Author had not the usual opportunity of revision. It is

GREAT. By General Count PHILIP DE SEGUR, Author of the History of Napoleon's Expedition to Russia in 1812. Printed for TREUTTEL and Co. London; and CADELL and Co. Edin burgh.

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"It is a very excellent, moral, and Christian production."Literary Gazette.

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WAVERLEY NOVELS.

On the first of June will be published,

INSCRIBED BY PERMISSION

To the King's Most Gracious Majesty, VOLUME FIRST

OF A NEW EDITION OF

THE WAVERLEY NOVELS;

TO BE CONTINUED IN MONTHLY VOLUMES, REVISED AND

CORRECTED,

WITH A GENERAL PREFACE,

AN INTRODUCTION TO EACH NOVEL,
AND NOTES, HISTORICAL AND ILLUSTRATIVE, BY
THE AUTHOR.

Embellished with Frontispieces and Vignette Titles, from Designs
Executed expressly for the present Edition, by the
MOST EMINENT ARTISTS.

NOTICE BY THE PUBLISHERS.

There are few circumstances in the history of letters more remarkable than the rise and progress of the WAVERLEY NOVELS. Unlike most other productions of genius, they had no infancy to struggle with, but reached at once the highest point of public favour,-a station which they have ever since maintained with undiminished popularity.

The circulation of these works having been hitherto confined, in a great degree, to the wealthier ranks of society, the Proprietors have resolved to place them within the reach of readers of all classes, by republishing them in a less costly, but at the same time more elegant shape, and with the additional advantage of a periodical issue.

The Publishers have therefore the honour of announcing the speedy commencement of a NEW EDITION, to be published in MONTHLY VOLUMES.

In this undertaking they have had the cheerful co-operation of the Author himself, who has not only revised every one of the Novels, but has added Explanatory Notes, and a new Introduction to each of them.

The nature and extent of these corrections and additions will be best understood by giving entire, from Volume First, The AUTHOR'S ADVERTISEMENT.

It has been the occasional occupation of the Author of Waverley, for several years past, to revise and correct the voluminous series of Novels which pass under that name; in order that, if they shoul ever appear as his avowed productions, he might render them in some degree deserving of a continuance of the public favour with which they have been honoured ever since their first appearance. For a long period, however, it seemed likely that the improved and illustrated edition which he meditated would be a posthumous publication. But the course of events, which occasioned the disclosure of the Author's name, having, in a great measure, restored to him a sort of parental control over these Works, he is naturally induced to give them to the press in a corrected, and, he hopes, an improved form, while life and health permit the task of revising and illustrating them. being his purpose, it is necessary to say a few words on the plan of the proposed Edition.

Such

hoped that the present edition will be found free from errors of that accidental kind.

The Author has also ventured to make some emendations of a different character, which, without being such apparent deviations from the original stories as to disturb the reader's fold associations, will, he thinks, add something to the spirit of the dialogue, narrative, or description. These consist in occasional pruning where the language is redundant, compression where the style is loose, infusion of vigour where it is languid, the exchange of less forcible for more appropriate epithets-slight alterations, in short, like the last touches of an artist, which contribute to heighten and finish the picture, though an inexperienced eye can hardly detect in what they consist.

The General Preface to the new Edition, and the Introductory Notices to each separate work, will contain an account of such circumstances attending the first publication of the Novels and Tales, as may appear interesting in themselves, or proper to be communicated to the public. The Author also proposes to publish, on this occasion, the various legends, family traditions, or obscure historical facts, which have formed the ground-work of these Novels, and to give some account of the places where the scenes are laid, when these are altogether, or in part, real; as well as a statement of particular incidents founded on fact; together with a more copious Glossary, and Notes explanatory of the ancient customs, and popular superstitions, referred to in the Romances.

Upon the whole, it is hoped that the Waverley Novels, in their new dress, will not be found to have lost any part of their attractions in consequence of receiving illustrations by the Author, and undergoing his careful revision.

ABBOTSFORD, January 1829.

This Edition will not only be improved in the manner just stated, but also enriched by the pencils of the eminent Artists who have been engaged to embellish it; among these may be named,

DAVID WILKIE, R.A.; EDWIN LANDSEER, R.A.; C. R. LES-
LIE, R.A.; ABRAHAM COOPER, R.A.: A. E. CHALON, R.A.;
G. S. NEWTON, A.R.A.; E. P. STEPHANOFF; H. COR-
BOULD WILLIAM KIDD; J. STANFIELD; JOHN BURNET;
and R. P. BONNINGTON.

The engravings will be executed on steel, by
CHARLES HEATH; WILLIAM FINDEN; CHARLES ROLLS;
JAMES MITCHELL; F. ENGLEHEART; AMBROSE WARKEN;
ROBERT GRAVES; J. C. EDWARDS; W. J. COOKE; W.
ENSOM; DAVENPORT: SHENTON; DUNCAN; MILLER;
and other eminent Engravers.

PLAN OF THE WORK.

I. The size to be royal 18mo, printed in the very best manner, and hot-pressed; each volume to contain about 400 pages, price 5s. done up in cloth.

II. The publication to commence on 1st June next; and to be continued regularly, on the first day of each month, till the whole is completed.

III. Each volume to have a Frontispiece and Vignette titlepage, both containing subjects illustrative of the Novel to which they are attached.

IV. The Work will be completed in FORTY VOLUMES, commencing with WAVERLEY, and closing with WOODSTOCK. The Author's additions will form about two of these Forty Volumes.

**The Edition is so far advanced at press, that regularity of publication may be depended on; and, to such subscribers as may wish to have some of the Novels complete on the appearance of the first volume of each respectively, the Publishers have to state, that the whole of WAVERLEY may be had on the first of June, in 2 vols. for 10s.

And, in like manner,
GUY MANNERING, in 2 vols. on the 1st of August.
THE ANTIQUARY, in 2 vols. on the 1st of October.
ROB ROY, in 2 vols. on the 1st of December.

As well as such others, during the progress of the Edition, as its arrangement enables the Publishers to deliver in complete

Tales.

The public are respectfully requested to inspect the Designs and Engravings at the premises of the Publishers,

And at MooN, BOYS, and GRAVES, Printsellers to his Majesty, 6, Pall Mall, London, by whom they will be sold separately, as will be afterwards announced.

Printed for CADELL & Co. 41, St Andrew Square, Edinburgh; and to be had of every Bookseller throughout the Kingdom.

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