HARVARD COLLFLE JUIN 6 1893 LIBRARY Minot unt (2 voly) PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE, Hanson & Co. THIS EDITION OF THE WAVERLEY NOVELS, THE BORDER EDITION, IS DEDICATED BY THE PUBLISHER ΤΟ THE HON. MRS. MAXWELL SCOTT OF ABBOTSFord AND HER CHILDREN, WALTER, MARY, MICHAEL, ALICE, MALCOLM, GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER AND GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN OF THE AUTHOR a Le ΤΟ The king's Most Gracious Majesty. SIRE, The Author of this Collection of Works of Fiction would not have presumed to solicit for them your Majesty's august patronage, were it not that the perusal has been supposed in some instances to have succeeded in amusing hours of relaxation, or relieving those of languor, pain, or anxiety, and therefore must have so far aided the warmest wish of your Majesty's heart, by contributing in however small a degree to the happiness of your people. They are therefore humbly dedicated to your Majesty, agreeably to your gracious permission, by Your Majesty's Dutiful Subject, ABBOTSFORD, 1st January, 1520. WALTER SCOTT. LIST OF ETCHINGS. PRINTED By F. GOULDING, LONDON. VOLUME THE FIRST. ✓ MEG MERRILIES. Drawn and Etched by C. O. Murray ELLANGOWAN CASTLE. Painted by J. Macwhirter, Frontispiece To face page 32 DEPARTURE OF THE GIPSIES. Painted by Clark 70 DOMINIE SAMPSON IN THE LIBRARY. Drawn and Etched by C. O. Murray 180 ✓ DANDIE DINMONT. Painted by Gourlay Steell, R.S.A. Etched by H. Macbeth-Raeburn. 212 b VOL. 1. |