The Waverley Novels, Centenary Edition in 25 Volumes: Waverley or 'Tis Sixty Years Since; Guy Mannering or The Astrologer; The Antiquary; Rob Roy; Old Mortality; The Tales of My Landlord: A Legend of Montrose and The Black Dwarf; The Tales of My Landlord…

Complete set in twenty-five volumes. Brown leather spines and corners, marbled boards, edges, and endpapers, gilt titles and decorations. Engraved frontispieces. Includes advertisement to this edition and to the Abbotsford edition, preface to the third edition, preface and introduction to the original edition. Titles included: Waverley or 'Tis Sixty Years Since; Guy Mannering or The Astrologer; The Antiquary; Rob Roy; Old Mortality; The Tales of My Landlord: A Legend of Montrose and The Black Dwarf; The Tales of My Landlord, Second Series: The Heart of Mid-Lothian [Midlothian]; The Tales of My Landlord, Third Series: The Bride of Lammermoor; Ivanhoe; The Monastery; The Abbot: Being a Sequel to The Monastery; Kenilworth; The Pirate; The Fortunes of Nigel; Peveril of the Peak; Quentin Durward; St. Ronan's Well; Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century; The Betrothed: A Tale of the Crusaders and The Chronicles of the Canongate; The Talisman: A Tale of the Crusaders and The Chronicles of the Canongate; Woodstock or The Cavalier: A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-One; The Fair Maid of Perth or St. Valentine's Day: Chronicles of the Canongate - Second Series; Anne of Geierstein or The Maiden of the Mist; Count Robert of Paris; The Surgeon's Daughter and Castle Dangerous. "Waverley is a 1814 historical novel by Sir Walter Scott. Initially published anonymously in 1814 as Scott's first venture into prose fiction, Waverley is often regarded as the first historical novel. The novel became so popular that Scott's later novels were advertised as being "by the author of Waverley". His series of novels on similar themes written during the same period have become collectively known as the "Waverley novels". In 1815, Scott was given the honour of dining with George, Prince Regent, who wanted to meet "the author of Waverley". It is thought that at this meeting Scott persuaded George that as a Stuart prince he could claim to be a Jacobite Highland Chieftain, a claim that would be dramatised when George became King and visited Scotland. The Waverley Novels are a long series of books by Sir Walter Scott. They take their name from Waverley (1814), which was the first. Their publication dates span 1814-1829."