page_title: Waverley Novels
section_title: Editions
hierarchical_section_title: Waverley Novels / Editions
caption_attribution_description: English: This is an eight-volume set of Walter Scott's Waverley Novels
context_page_description: The Waverley Novels are a long series of novels by Sir Walter Scott. For nearly a century, they were among the most popular and widely read novels in all of Europe.
  Because Scott did not publicly acknowledge authorship until 1827, the series takes its name from Waverley, the first novel of the series released in 1814. The later books bore the words "by the author of Waverley" on their title pages.
  The Tales of my Landlord sub-series was not advertised as "by the author of Waverley" and thus is not always included as part of the Waverley Novels series.
context_section_description: The novels were all originally printed by James Ballantyne on the Canongate in Edinburgh. James Ballantyne was the brother of one of Scott's close friends, John Ballantyne ("Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh"). 
  There are two definitive editions. One is the "Magnum Opus", a 48-volume set published between 1829 and 1833 by Robert Cadell, based on previous editions, with new introductions and notes by Scott. This was the basis of almost all subsequent editions until the appearance of the standard modern edition, the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, a 30-volume set, based on early-edition texts emended mainly from the surviving manuscripts, published by Edinburgh University Press between 1993 and 2012.
caption: Set of Scott's Waverley Novels
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