Physical description

Waverley Novels Vol 11 Tales of My Landlord, Light brown hardcover lettering in black text.
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Publisher: Fisher Son & Co
Date: 1836

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 11” 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 46 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.
"Tales of My Landlord" is part of a series of historical novels by Sir Walter Scott, published pseudonymous as works edited by "Jedediah Cleishbotham." It forms part of his broader Waverley Novels, framed as stories gathered from a fictional innkeeper.
The third series, published in 1819, spans four volumes total. Volumes 1–3 primarily cover The Bride of Lammermoor (a tragedy of feuding families in early 18th-century Scotland), while Volume 4 contains A Legend of Montrose (set during the 1640s Wars of the Three Kingdoms, focusing on Highland clans and battles like Inverlochy.
The subject Fishers "Vol 11" refers to a misremembered or edition specific chapter in this series (e.g., a pivotal scene in The Bride of Lammermoor), not a standalone volume.