The Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, Vol. 2: Walter Scott: Guy Mannering

## Find Out What Scott Really Wrote Going back to the original manuscripts, a team of scholars has uncovered what Scott originally wrote and intended his public to read before errors, misreadings and expurgations crept in during production. ## The Edinburgh Edition offers you: * A clean, corrected text * Textual histories * Explanatory notes * Verbal changes from the first-edition text * Full glossaries ## Title Description **Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer**, first published in 1815, was Walter Scott's second novel. Guy Mannering only half-believes in his art, but does believe in the ability of his patriarchal power, wealth and social position to sort out social confusion. However he has to learn the limits of a nabob's authority in a society that (in the 1780s) is no longer a single hierarchy but has many subsets, each with its own laws – gypsies, smugglers, Edinburgh lawyers, the Border store farmer, the traditional landowner. **Guy Mannering** is set at the time of the American Revolution, and represents a Scotland at once backward and advanced, patriarchal and commercial, traditional and modern, a country in very varied stages of progression. This is the first modern edition of one of Scott's finest works. It is based on the first edition, but is corrected from the manuscript, and restores around two thousand readings lost through error or misunderstanding. For the first time it includes Scott's extended portraits of the Edinburgh literati which were unaccountably omitted from the printed version. Guy Mannering believes in the ability of patriarchal power and social position to sort out social confusion, but has to learn the limits of authority in a society that is no longer a single hierarchy. Scott's second novel, it was first published in 1815