OTHER NOVELS.
The success of Waverley led to the production of that series of works, by which the author established himself "as the greatest master in a department of literature, to which he has given a lustre previously unknown;—in which he stands confessedly unrivalled, and not approached, even within moderate limits, except, among predecessors, by Cervantes, and among contemporaries, by the author of Anastasius." We shall merely enumerate these works, with the date of their publication, and, as a point of kindred interest, the sums for which the original manuscripts, in the hand-writing of Sir Walter, were sold in the autumn of last year. Of the merits of these productions it would be idle to attempt to speak in our narrow space; but, for a finely graphic paper, (probably the last written previously to the author's death,) on the literary claims of Sir Walter Scott, as a novelist, we may refer the reader to No. 109 of the Edinburgh Review.
| Novels. | Vols. | Year of Publication. | Orig. MS. sold in 1831, for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £. | s. | |||
| Waverley | 3 | 1814 | 18 | 0 |
| Guy Mannering | 3 | 1815 | 27 | 10 |
| The Antiquary* | 3 | 1816 | 42 | 0 |
| Tales of My Landlord | 4 1st ser. | 1816 | 33 | 0 |
| Rob Roy* | 3 | 1818 | 50 | 0 |
| Tales of My Landlord | 4 2nd ser. | 1818 | ||
| Tales of My Landlord | 4 3rd ser. | 1819 | 14 | 14 |
| Ivanhoe | 3 | 1820 | 12 | 0 |
| The Monastery* | 3 | 1820 | 18 | 18 |
| The Abbot | 3 | 1820 | 14 | 0 |
| Kenilworth | 3 | 1821 | 17 | 0 |
| The Pirate | 3 | 1822 | 12 | 0 |
| The Fortunes of Nigel | 3 | 1822 | 16 | 16 |
| Peveril of the Peak* | 3 | 1823 | 42 | 0 |
| Quentin Durward | 3 | 1823 | ||
| St. Ronan's Well | 3 | 1824 | ||
| Redgauntlet | 3 | 1824 | ||
| Tales of the Crusaders | 4 | 1825 | ||
| Woodstock | 3 | 1826 | ||
| Chronicles of the Canongate | 2 1st ser. | 1827 | ||
| Chronicles of the Canongate | 3 2nd ser. | 1828 | ||
| Anne of Gerstein | 3 | 1829 | ||
| Tales of My Landlord | 4 4th ser. | 1831 | ||
Making in all, 73 volumes, within 17 years.
(Those marked * were alone perfect.)