Waverley

OR

’TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE

by Sir Walter Scott, BART.

With Introductory Essay and Notes

By ANDREW LANG

With Illustrations

1893

THIS NEW EDITION OF THE WAVERLEY NOVELS
IS DEDICATED TO THE HON. MRS. MAXWELL SCOTT OF
ABBOTSFORD AND HER CHILDREN,

Walter, Mary, Michael, Alice, Malcolm,
Margaret and Herbert

GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER AND GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN
OF THE AUTHOR,

BY THE PUBLISHERS

TO
THE KING’S MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY.

SIRE,

The Author of this collection of Works of Fiction would not have presumed tosolicit for them your Majesty’s august patronage, were it not that theperusal has been supposed in some instances to have succeeded in amusing hoursof relaxation, or relieving those of languor, pain, or anxiety, and thereforemust have so far aided the warmest wish of your Majesty’s heart, bycontributing in however small a degree to the happiness of your people.

They are therefore humbly dedicated to your Majesty, agreeably to your graciouspermission, by

Your Majesty’s Dutiful Subject,

WALTER SCOTT.

ABBOTSFORD, 1st January, 1829.

EDITOR’S NOTE

GENERAL PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION OF WAVERLEY

APPENDIX

No. I. Fragment of a Romance which was to have been entitled Thomas the Rhymer. Chapter I.

No. II. Conclusion of Mr. Strutt’s Romance of Queen-Hoo Hall.

Chapter IV.

Chapter V.

No. III. Anecdote of School Days