(SPECIMEN OF LIBRARY EDITION WAVERLEY Novels,

THREE-SEVENTHS OF A PAGE.)

CERTAIN degree of success, real or supposed, in the delineation of Queen Mary naturally induced the author to attempt something similar respecting

"her sister and her foe," the celebrated Elizabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have approached the task with the same feelings; for the candid Robertson himself confesses having felt the prejudices with which a Scotsman is tempted to regard the subject; and what so liberal a historian avows, a poor romance-writer dares not disown. But he hopes the influence of a prejudice, almost as natural to him as his native air, will not be found to have greatly affected the sketch he has attempted of England's Elizabeth. I have endeavoured to describe her as at once a high-minded sovereign, and a female of passionate feelings, hesitating betwixt the sense of her rank and the duty she owed her subjects on the one hand, and on the other, her attachment to a nobleman, who, in external qualifications at least, amply merited her favour. The interest of the story is thrown upon

II. The Author's Favourite Edition, 1847.

Price £7 4s. in cloth; size of page, 43 by 24 inches.

In 48 volumes fcap. 8vo, printed in Longprimer type, and containing 96 Engravings from Steel and Wood. Each Novel is generally divided into 2 volumes. This Edition has long been a favourite with the public.

III.-The Roxburghe Edition.

Price £6 in cloth, paper label; £7:10s. cloth, gilt top; or £8: 8s. half French morocco.

Separate vols., price 2s. 6d. in cloth, and 3s. 6d. in half morocco. In 48 volumes fcap. 8vo, printed on tinted paper, and illustrated with about 1600 Woodcuts and 96 Steel Engravings. The Illustrations are drawn by artists of the highest standing, many of whom are members of the Royal Academy. This Edition combines the pictorial advantages of the ABBOTSFORD Edition (now out of print) with the portability of the Author's Favourite.

A new Issue (1884) of the above in Monthly Volumes, red cloth,

gilt tops, price 3s. per vol.

(SPECIMEN OF ROXBURGHE EDITION OF THE WAVERLEY NOVELS.)

THE next morning chanced to be Sunday, a day peculiarly hard to be got rid of at Osbaldistone Hall: for after the formal religious service of the morning had

IV. The Centenary Edition.

Price £4: 4s. in cloth; may also be had half bound, calf or morocco. In 25 vols. crown 8vo, illustrated with 158 Steel Plates, and containing Additional Copyright Notes from the Author's pen not hitherto published, besides others by the editor, the late DAVID LAING, LL.D. With a General Index and separate Indices and Glossaries. Each volume, price 3s. 6d.

The same in Twelve Volumes cr. 8vo, with 12 Steel Plates and 125 Woodcuts, price, complete in cloth, 48s., or half French morocco, 60s.

HE title of this work has not been chosen without the grave and solid deliberation which matters of importance demand from the prudent. Even its first, or general denomination, was the result of no common research or selection, although, according to the example of my predecessors, I had only to seize upon the most sounding and euphonic surname that English history or topography affords, and elect it at once as the title of my work, and the name of my hero. But alas ! what could my readers have expected from the chivalrous epithets of Howard, Mordaunt,

V.-The Pocket Edition.

Illustrated with 125 Woodcut Engravings.

In 12 vols., price £1:14s. in cloth, or £2 in half Cape morocco, also in half-bound calf. The arrangement of the Novels is the same as that on page 32,-each volume containing two Novels, except volume 3, which contains three-viz. Old Mortality, Montrose, and The Bride of Lammermoor. The same in 25 volumes 12mo, cloth, price £1:17s.; also full bound in limp Cape morocco, gilt edges.

Separate volumes, sewed 1s., cloth 1s. 6d.

VI.-The Cheap Edition.

In 4 demy 8vo volumes, in half French morocco, price £1:1s. ; may also be had in half-calf.

The arrangement of the Novels in this set is the same as that on page 32,-the first volume containing 7 novels, and the other three vols. 6 novels each.