Physical description

Waverley Novels Tales of my Landlord Set-1 Vol 9, 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 9” published by Fisher Son & Co (1836) is part of a collected edition of Sir Walter Scott's works, containing stories from the "Tales of My Landlord" series.
This edition of set 1,of Vol. 9” is the beginning of the first series of “Tales of My Landlord” in which is included “The Black Dwarf” and “The Tale of Old Mortality”. In many multi volume collected edition runs, Vol. 9 will be the first volume of “The Tale of Old Mortality” a more substantial and famous novel in the series, with the other half of the story following in Vol 10.
The opening volume of “The Tale of Old Mortality”, is about the Scottish Presbyterian movement that supported two agreements made by the National Covenant of 1638, or the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643. These agreements were intended to defend and extend through the Scottish Presbyterianism resistance that occurred between 1679–1689. The story is told through the journey of the young landowner Henry Morton and the Covenanters’ guerrilla struggle against royal and Episcopal authority of the time.
The “Tales of My Landlord” is framed and introduced through the fictional narrator editor, the stories are supposedly gathered from the landlord of the Wallace Inn at Gandercleugh, compiled by “Peter Pattieson” and edited by the schoolmaster and parish clerk Jedediah Cleishbotham. This framework is laid out in the introductions and prefatory material to the first series, especially in the prefatory pages to “The Black Dwarf” and the opening of Old Mortality.