THE ANTIQUARY BY SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. WITH INTRODUCTORY ESSAY AND NOTES BY ANDREW LANG TEN ETCHINGS VOLUME I. LONDON JOHN C. NIMMO 14, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND MDCCCXCIII THIS EDITION OF THE WAVERLEY NOVELS, THE BORDER EDITION, IS DEDICATED BY THE PUBLISHER TO THE HON. MRS. MAXWELL SCOTT OF ABBbotsford AND HER CHILDREN, WALTER, MARY, MICHAEL, ALICE, MALCOLM, GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER AND GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN OF THE AUTHOR TO The king's Most Gracious Majesty. SIRE, The Author of this Collection of Works of Fiction would not have presumed to solicit for them your Majesty's august patronage, were it not that the perusal has been supposed in some instances to have succeeded in amusing hours of relaxation, or relieving those of languor, pain, or anxiety, and therefore must have so far aided the warmest wish of your Majesty's heart, by contributing in however small a degree to the happiness of your people. They are therefore humbly dedicated to your Majesty, agreeably to your gracious permission, by Your Majesty's Dutiful Subject, ABBOTSFORD, 1st January, 1829. WALTER SCOTT. LIST OF ETCHINGS. PRINTED BY F. GOULDING, London. THE ANTIQUARY'S SANCTUM. Painted by R. Herdman, R.S.A. Frontispiece |