Waverley Novels, Standard Edition.

Tales of my Landlord

Second series.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 

"Hear, Land of' Cakes and brither Scots,

Frae Maidenkirk to Johnny Groat's,

If there's hole in a' your coats,

                    I rede ye tent it;

A chiel's amang ye takin' notes,

                     An' faith he'll prent it." 

Burns.

From the last revised edition, containing the author's final corrections, notes, etc.

Two volumes in One.

Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, No 822 Chestnut Street.

Caxton Press of Sherman & Co, Philadelphia.

Frontispiece etching of Jeannie Deans and Dumbiedikes by Baker Smith. 

330 pages. 

Hardback measuring 7.25 inches by 5 inches by 1.3 inches approx.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian is the seventh of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley Novels. It was originally published in four volumes on 25 July 1818, under the title of Tales of My Landlord, 2nd series, and the author was given as "Jedediah Cleishbotham, Schoolmaster and Parish-clerk of Gandercleugh". The main action, which takes place between September 1736 and May 1737, is set in motion by the Porteous Riots in Edinburgh and involves an epic journey from Edinburgh to London by a working-class girl to obtain a royal commutation of the death penalty incurred by her sister for the alleged murder of her new-born baby. Despite some negative contemporary reviews, some now consider it Scott's best novel.