The Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
The aim of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels is to publish the first critical edition of Walter Scott's fiction.
When compared with the manuscript there are usually in excess of 50,000 variants in the first edition of a Scott novel. Most of these are probably in accordance with what Scott wanted and expected, but the manuscripts were misread and misunderstood, and were subject to light bowdlerisation. Scott himself did not read proofs against his manuscript, and thus did not recognise mistakes when they made sense. Without exception, later editions were based on any convenient previous printed version, and so include most of the mistakes of their predecessors while adding their own. There was an accumulation of error, and when Scott came to prepare his own edition (the 'Magnum Opus' of 1829--33) he revised and corrected an earlier printed text unaware that it was already corrupt.
The EEWN returns to the manuscripts to recover readings lost though error and misunderstanding and produces what might be called ideal first editions.
Project
arts-humanities.net
Scott, Walter. Guy Mannering. Edited by P. D. Garside. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999.
Scott, Walter. The Antiquary. Edited by David Hewitt. Edinburgh and New York: Edinburgh and Columbia University Presses, 1995.
Scott, Walter. The Black Dwarf. Edited by P. D. Garside. Edinburgh and New York: Edinburgh and Columbia University Presses, 1993.
Scott, Walter. The Tale of Old Mortality. Edited by D. S. Mack. Edinburgh and New York: Edinburgh and Columbia University Presses, 1993.
Scott, Walter. The Heart of Mid-Lothian. Edited by David Hewitt and Alison Lumsden. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004.
Scott, Walter. The Bride of Lammermoor. Edited by J. H. Alexander. Edinburgh and New York: Edinburgh and Columbia University Presses, 1995.
Scott, Walter. A Legend of the Wars of Montrose. Edited by J. H. Alexander. Edinburgh and New York: Edinburgh and Columbia University Presses, 1995.
Scott, Walter. Ivanhoe. Edited by Graham Tulloch. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998.
Scott, Walter. The Monastery. Edited by Penny Fielding. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000.
Scott, Walter. The Abbot. Edited by Christopher Johnson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000.
Scott, Walter. Kenilworth. Edited by J. H. Alexander. Edinburgh and New York: Edinburgh and Columbia University Presses, 1993.
Scott, Walter. The Pirate. Edited by Mark Weinstein and Alison Lumsden. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002.
Scott, Walter. The Fortunes of Nigel. Edited by Frank Jordan. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004.
Scott, Walter. Saint Ronan's Well. edited by Mark Weinstein. Edinburgh and New York: Edinburgh and Columbia University Presses, 1995.
Scott, Walter. Redgauntlet. Edited by G. A. M. Wood and David Hewitt. Edinburgh and New York: Edinburgh and Columbia University Presses, 1997.
Scott, Walter. The Chronicles of the Canongate. Edited by Claire Lamont. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000.
Scott, Walter. The Fair Maid of Perth. Edited by A. D. Hook and Donald Mackenzie. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999.
Scott, Walter. Quentin Durward. Edited by J. H. Alexander and G. A. M. Wood. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2001.
Scott, Walter. Anne of Geierstein. Edited by J. H. Alexander. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000.