ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about Kathryn Sutherland, who has analysed Scott's view of his role in the production process. It examines Scott's associations with the illustration and engraving trades in his early writing career, and scrutinizes his experience with literary illustration prior to the first illustrations of the Waverley novels. The reciprocal relationship between the visual arts and literature, which increasingly defined the commercial thrust of the literary period, had been negotiated in Scott's imagination long before the first illustrations of the novels appeared in 1819. The Localities was not the first time that Scott had personally conceived, planned, and almost successfully facilitated an illustrated publication with James Skene. The introductions to The Fortunes of Nigel and The Betrothed articulate Enlightenment principles of the division of labour. Scott was engaging surreptitiously in the processes of mass-production, under his guise of the 'Author of Waverley', a guise which allowed him to disassociate his public, gentrified persona from profit-driven labourer he perceived himself to be.
