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ADVERTISEMENT.

IT has been the occasional occupation of the Author of Waverley, for severa, years past, to revise and correct the voluminous series of Novels which pass ander that name; in order that, if they should ever appear as his avowed proluctions, he might render them in some degree deserving of a continuance of he public favour with which they have been honoured ever since their first appearance. For a long period, however, it seemed likely that the improved and illustrated edition which he meditated would be a posthumous publication. But the course of the events which occasioned the disclosure of the Author's ame, having, in a great measure, restored to him a sort of parental control ver these works, he is naturally induced to give them to the press in a corcted, and, he hopes, an improved form, while life and health permit the task revising and illustrating them. Such being his purpose, it is necessary to say few words on the plan of the proposed Edition.

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e Author has taken this opportunity to correct errors of the press and slips of the That such should exist cannot be wondered at, when it is considered that the lishers found it their interest to hurry through the press a succession of the early ons of the various Novels, and that the Author had not the usual opportunity of

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