Author : Walter Scott Bart
Release : 2015-07-15
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 721/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rob Roy, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) by : Walter Scott Bart
Download or read book Rob Roy, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by Walter Scott Bart. This book was released on 2015-07-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rob Roy, Vol. 1 A collector of first editions of Sir Walter Scott's novels may, perchance, be bewildered by the persistence with which 'Rob Roy' is made to follow 'The Antiquary' in later issues of the Waverley novels. It was published in 1818, and its title page ran as follows: - "Rob Roy, by the Author of 'Waverley, ' 'Guy Mannering, ' and 'The Antiquary.' In three volumes, Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne & Co., for Archibald Constable & Co., Edinburgh, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, London: 1818." Nothing is said about the 'Tales of my Landlord, ' collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham, which came after 'The Antiquary' but did not bear the imprint of Constable and Longman but of Blackwood and John Murray. The circumstance which led Scott to leave Constable is too long and too financially complicated a story to tell here. Suffice that Sir Walter was not sorry to bewilder his contemporaries still more by starting yet another Unknown into the field, in the person of the supposed Jedediah Cleishbotham, whose two stories, 'Old Mortality' and 'The Black Dwarf, ' appeared in 1816, not many months after 'The Antiquary.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
