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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832. Edinburgh edition of the Waverley novels. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ; New York : Columbia University Press, <c1995-c2004> (OCoLC)647653931 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Walter Scott; David Hewitt |
| ISBN: | 9780748605675 0748605673 0748605681 9780748605682 0748605371 9780748605378 0231103964 9780231103961 9780748605699 074860569X 0748605711 9780748605712 023110572X 9780231105729 0748605738 9780748605736 0748605746 9780748605743 0748605754 9780748605750 0748605762 9780748605767 0748605770 9780748605774 0748605797 9780748605798 0748605355 9780748605354 0231103980 9780231103985 023110720X 9780231107204 0748605843 9780748605842 0748605851 9780748605859 074860586X 9780748605866 0748605886 9780748605880 |
| OCLC Number: | 34651203 |
| Description: | v. <2-3, 5, 7, pts. a-b, 8-10, 12-13, 15-17, 20-22> : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | -- v. 2. Guy Mannering / edited by P.D. Garside -- v. 3. The antiquary / edited by David Hewitt -- -- v. 5. Rob Roy / edited by David Hewitt -- -- v. 7a. The bride of Lammermoor -- v. 7b. A legend of the wars of Montrose / edited by J.H. Alexander -- v. 8. Ivanhoe / edited by Graham Tulloch -- v. 9. The monastery / edited by Penny Fielding -- v. 10. The abbot / edited by Christopher Johnson -- v. 12. The pirate / edited by Mark Weinstein and Alison Lumsden -- v. 13. The fortunes of Nigel / edited by Frank Jordan -- v. 15. Quentin Durward / edited by J.H. Alexander and G.A.M. Wood -- v. 16. Saint Ronan's well / edited by Mark Weinstein -- v. 17. Redgauntlet / edited by G.A.M. Wood with David Hewitt -- v. 20. Chronicles of the Canongate / edited by Claire Lamont -- v. 21. The fair maid of Perth / edited by A.D. Hook and Donald Mackenzie -- v. 22. Anne of Geierstein / edited by J.H. Alexander |
| Other Titles: | Waverley novels (Edinburgh ed.) |
| Responsibility: | editor-in-chief, David Hewitt. |
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The volumes have been carefully and critically edited from the original manuscripts and now the texts, which in each case capture large numbers of readings never before printed and clear away elements of corruption in existing editions, are as close to what Scott originally wrote as the skills of the editorial team can make them. It is a pleasure to acknowledge the appearance of two more volumes in the new critical Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels ! both volumes are truly impressive jobs of scholarly editing, and they are handsomely designed and printed. Christopher Johnson, who works in the House of Lords, has produced a magisterial edition of the neglected novel as part of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels ! In short, this addition to The Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels is remarkable value. Christopher Johnson's edition of The Abbot should be in every library collecting material on the great Sir Walter Scott and on Scottish-English relationships. Highly recommended. -- Professor William Baker, Northern Illinois University The Edinburgh Edition respects Scott the artist by 'restoring' versions of the novels that are not quite what his first readers saw. Indeed, it returns to manuscripts that the printers never handled, as Scott's fiction before 1827 was transcribed before it reached the printshop. Each volume of the Edinburgh edition presents an uncluttered text of one work, followed by an Essay on the Text by the editor of the work, a list of the emendations that have been made to the first edition, explanatory notes and a glossary ! The editorial essays are histories of the respective texts. Some of them are almost 100 pages long; when they are put together they constitute a fascinating and lucid account of Scott's methods of composition and his financial manoeuvres. This edition is for anyone who takes Scott seriously. The volumes have been carefully and critically edited from the original manuscripts and now the texts, which in each case capture large numbers of readings never before printed and clear away elements of corruption in existing editions, are as close to what Scott originally wrote as the skills of the editorial team can make them. It is a pleasure to acknowledge the appearance of two more volumes in the new critical Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels ! both volumes are truly impressive jobs of scholarly editing, and they are handsomely designed and printed. Christopher Johnson, who works in the House of Lords, has produced a magisterial edition of the neglected novel as part of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels ! In short, this addition to The Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels is remarkable value. Christopher Johnson's edition of The Abbot should be in every library collecting material on the great Sir Walter Scott and on Scottish-English relationships. Highly recommended. The Edinburgh Edition respects Scott the artist by 'restoring' versions of the novels that are not quite what his first readers saw. Indeed, it returns to manuscripts that the printers never handled, as Scott's fiction before 1827 was transcribed before it reached the printshop. Each volume of the Edinburgh edition presents an uncluttered text of one work, followed by an Essay on the Text by the editor of the work, a list of the emendations that have been made to the first edition, explanatory notes and a glossary ! The editorial essays are histories of the respective texts. Some of them are almost 100 pages long; when they are put together they constitute a fascinating and lucid account of Scott's methods of composition and his financial manoeuvres. This edition is for anyone who takes Scott seriously. Read more...
