Editing Waverley (novel) (section)

==Editions==
The first edition of ''Waverley'', in three volumes, consisting of 1000 copies, was published in Edinburgh on 7 July 1814 by [[Archibald Constable]] and Co. and in London later in the month by [[Longman]], Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.<ref>For a full account of the early editions see ''ibid.'', 383, 404–29.</ref> As with all the [[Waverley novels]] before 1827, publication was anonymous. The price was one guinea (£1.05). The first edition was followed by two further editions, together comprising 4000 copies, in the same year, with small authorial revisions, and by several more editions extending into the early 1820s: Scott was involved in at least one of these, the sixth edition of 1816. In early 1826 Scott returned to ''Waverley'', revising the text and writing an introduction and notes for a complete edition of the Waverley Novels: this took some time to materialise after the 1826 financial crash, but eventually the novel appeared as the first and second volumes of the "Magnum" edition in June and July 1829.

The first critical edition, by [[Claire Lamont]], was published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford, in 1981. The standard edition is now that edited by P. D. Garside in 2007, as the first volume of the [[Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels]]: this is based on the first edition with emendations to restore authorial readings from the manuscript and the second and third editions. The new Magnum material is included in Volume 25a.