A new, handsome and cheap edition of the novels, tales and romances, by the author of Waverly [sic] : J. Robinson, bookseller, Baltimore, proposes to put to press, early in June, and publish by subscription, a new edition of the Waverly [sic] novels ...
Robinson, Joseph
[Baltimore : s.n.,
1828?]
Caption title.
A prospectus for an unpublished edition of the Waverley novels, intended to appear in weekly numbers, each number half a volume. After giving details of the intended publication schedule, pricing, binding, etc., the prospectus contains a publisher's note praising the author's writings as "unit[ing] all the excellencies of genius" and as "uniform allies of virtue... Like Shakespeare, he paints with as much good nature as truth, and diffuses over all his various creations the happy benignity of his own genius". Scott's name is not mentioned in the prospectus, even though he had been publicly named as the author in 1827.
Not recorded in Todd & Bowden's bibliography of Scott.
Half-sheet bifolium, printed on rectos only, folded for self-mailing, verso of second leaf addressed in manuscript and stamped in ink with remains of wax seal.
United States Maryland Baltimore.