8vo. In three volumes. [4], xlviii, 313, [1]; [4], 334; [4], 349pp, [1]. With half-titles. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled straight-grain calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed, slight chipping to head of Vol. III spine. Internally clean and crisp.

The first edition of Sir Walter Scott's (1771-1832) historical novel set during the reign of James VI and I, and centred on a London-based Scottish community in the wake of the Union of Crowns; the fifteenth title in the Waverley Novels series.