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LITERARY ADVERTISER.

LONDON, APRIL, 1859.

New Illustrated Edition of the Waverley Novels. (SPECIMENS ON APPLICATION.)

On the 2nd May will be published the First Volume of

A NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF

THE AUTHOR'S FAVORITE EDITION

OF THE

WAVERLEY NOVELS,

In 48 Volumes fcap. 8vo., price 4s. 6d. each, cloth,

ILLUSTRATED WITH 96 STEEL ENGRAVINGS, AND ABOUT 1000 WOODCUTS.
PRINTED FROM A NEW TYPE, AND IN THE BEST STYLE,
BY R. AND R. CLARK, EDINBURGH.

The Volumes will be published Monthly, but the printing will be so accelerated that parties desiring to complete their Sets will have an

opportunity of doing so in Eighteen Months.

NOTWITHSTANDING the many Editions of the Waverley Novels that have issued from the press, a want has long been felt for one which would at once combine the advantages of good readable type, portability, and pictorial illustration. Of all the sizes, that which originally won the approval of the Author has been considered the best for this purpose. The type selected is a beautifully new cut Long Primer, large enough to be read with the greatest ease, and yet in perfect conformity with the size of the page.

The Abbotsford Edition of the Novels, which is now nearly out of print, contained a vast number of Woodcut Illustrations from Drawings by the most eminent Artists, including Sir David Wilkie, Sir William Allan, Mulready, Landseer, Frith, Stanfield, Roberts, Creswick, Lauder, Collins, Leslie, Cooper, and others. These Wood Blocks are still in the best condition, having been comparatively little used, and it is proposed to incorporate as many of them as the size of the page will admit; while, at the same time, it is intended to continue those beautiful Steel Engravings by Stephanhoff, Chalon, Duncan, Boxall, Newton, Smirk, Wright, Stone, &c., that adorned the original edition in 48 volumes.

This new Edition will likewise have the advantage of ranging symmetrically with the entire series of Scott's Works (Poetry, Prose, and Life), and the Publishers are confident that, in beauty and permanent value, it will equal any of the Editions that have hitherto appeared.

It has been the desire of the Publishers to fix as low a price as the great cost of the work would permit; and when it is remembered that the same volumes without the Woodcut Illustrations, and printed from an old type, were sold at Five Shillings so lately as 1851, the price fixed on for this Edition will not be thought otherwise than very moderate.

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