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They are simple and yet effective in this garb. "The Tales of a Grandfather' are nearly always found thus dressed. of We look with interest on 'Waverley,' which, in its eighth edition, is now open before me. It is a good, well-printed, business-like piece of work. The paper is a little tinged with age, each page having twenty-four lines, the printing rather "rough," but bold. The first edition is very rare and priced high-at some eight or ten pounds. Yet all the rest-"the whole set," in fact-may be had for three pounds or so- minus, of course, the first -On the Word “Up,” 195-Earls of St. Pol-Old Wooden Waverley. For the first issue, in three Chest- Whiskers, 196-Coins in Foundation StonesLincolnshire Saying-The Jubilee Number--Les Détenus, volumes, the type was apparently "kept 197-Helen Faucit and Margaret Gillies-Toad Mugs-standing"; for there were numbers of Bible originally written in Dutch, 198. Salmon Disease "To REPLIES:-Eighteenth-Century History of England'. NOTES ON BOOKS:- Beeching's Poetical Works of Milton' Tomlinson's 'Life of Charles Tomlinson ' Notices to Correspondents. Hotes. EARLY ISSUES OF THE WAVERLEY NOVELS. THIS is a rather interesting matter, from the attraction of the earliest editions, and the exceptional artistic grace with which they are designed. Modern editions of Scott, as well as of Dickens and Thackeray, can never offer the easy spontaneousness of the old ones. The shape was directed by "the form and pressure of the author himself; while the reproductions of our day always have an artificial air, and do not belong to the old period. What, for instance, could be more "heartless" (Elia's term) than the library set of Thackeray's stories, with its pale, feeble-looking print? I do not know any better addition to the pleasures of the Waverleys" than to read them in the actual original editions, all more or less finely printed and "designed" by the worthy Ballantyne. The feeling of reading in these "original" editions is hard to analyze, and may be thought fanciful enough. But it is based on the idea, that the book was the one that had passed through the hands of the author himself, of which the proofs had been set right by him, and which was generally acceptable to him. The old type, the old paper, binding, &c., editions, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth, which did not differ. At first merely the name of the story was used as a headline; in two or three instances the headline was the subject of the chapter. Gradually, however, the good bold fashion of printing was put aside, and in the later works, 'Kenilworth,' The Pirate,' and others, a type much smaller and less dignified was used, and a longer line and larger page were adopted, with a rather poor type. Some were printed in octavo, and then there was a reversion to the "twelves." One is astonished to note how small these volumes were as compared with a modern, full-blown, three-volume novel. They were very handy, but gradually grew year by year. There has been a complete change in the format of novels. When Scott began his series it was simply a handy pocket volume, which the reader could take about with him. I have a complete set of Miss Austen's works, first editions all, and they are of this small size, each page containing not more than 20 lines or 200 words. By the fifties the novel had grown into large octavo size, each page containing over 300 words. It would be interesting to discuss the causes of this development, but I have not space here. The fashion now is-and has been-in the case of a popular story by a writer such as Boz to multiply impressions of the same text according to the demand. The type is moulded and kept standing. Every copy is the same until the time arrives for cheaper or more convenient forms. But in Scott's case his publishers were constantly devising |