ABSTRACT
The catalogue constitutes the first full index of all the illustrations produced for the Waverley novels that were produced during Scott's lifetime by or for his publishers in Edinburgh. This catalogue of illustrations is an important tool in examining precisely what the author valued in illustration of his work and in evaluating those generic forms of illustration that he and his illustrators helped to engender through the early collected reprint editions of the Waverley novels. In 1819, Archibald Constable, under Scott's advice, commissioned a suite of illustrations from the Scottish history painter William Allan, which were originally meant to be bound into the first-ever collected edition of the Waverley novels. Alexander Nasmyth's landscape illustrations for the 1821 edition of the Novels and Tales succeeded where Allan's had failed two years previously in being produced already bound into the novels.
