Physical description

Waverley Novels The Pirate- 2 Vol 25, Light brown hardcover lettering in black text.
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Publisher: Fisher Son & Co
Date: 1838

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

The label on spine with typed text PAT FIC SCO
Paste down front end paper has a sticker from Warrnambool Public Library
Front loose end paper has a sticker from Corangamite Regional Library Service

Summary

The subject volume “Waverley Novels Vol 46” published by Fisher Son & Co (1838) is part of a collected edition of Sir Walter Scott's works, containing stories from the "Tales of My Landlord" series.
"Tales of My Landlord" forms a key subset of Scott's Waverley Novels, presented as fictional tales gathered by characters like Peter Pattieson from the landlord of the Wallace “Inn at Gandercleugh”. The series spans multiple books across four sub-series, including “The Black Dwarf” (1707 setting), “Old Mortality” (1679–1689), “The Heart of Midlothian” (1736), “The Bride of Lammermoor” (1709–1711), “A Legend of Montrose” (1644–1645), “Count Robert of Paris” (1097), and “Castle Dangerous” (1307). Vol 25 in the 1838 Fisher edition reprints later entries like “Count Robert of Paris” or “Castle Dangerous” from the fourth series, as these stories originally appeared in Scott's Magnum Opus collected volume editions, the first from 1816. With the influential 48-volume “Magnum Opus” edition from 1829–1833 by Robert Cadell, serving as the basis for later collected published sets like Fisher's.
The Pirate is Walter Scott’s historical novel set in 17th-century Shetland and Orkney, centred on a shipwreck, piracy, family conflict, and rival love interests. It’s typically presented as a three set novel. In this edition, volume 25 is the second part of “The Pirate”, and the work continues across the surrounding other two volumes in the set.
The story follows the Troil family and a shipwrecked captain Cleveland along with Mordaunt, whose relationships with Minna and Brenda Troil drive much of the plot. As Cleveland’s pirate identity is revealed, the novel shifts into rescue, capture, and reconciliation, ending with the pirates subdued and the family ties resettled.
The novel itself is commonly divided into three volumes or parts in standard editions, and the Waverley Novels collected edition spreads it across multiple numbered volumes.