Picturing Scotland through the Waverley Novels

Richard J. Hill is a lecturer in English at Chaminade University of Honolulu, USA

'Hill’s Picturing Scotland, a detailed account of the first illustrations for the Waverley novels, offers us a new perspective on Scott’s leading role in artistic innovation, and is highly recommended to anyone interested in Scott as well as the history of book-illustration in the early nineteenth century.' BARS Bulletin and Review 'Scott’s anxiety and nostalgia concerning the dying past accounts for much of his motivation to preserve the past, and Hill ever so diligently - through his clever use of primary and secondary sources - illuminates those historical, technological, and antiquarian motivations that underpinned Walter Scott’s historical project, and hence the inclusion of illustrations in the Waverley Novels.' Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies 'In highlighting the prominent part played by Constable and Cadell in this innovative enterprise, [Hill’s] study makes an interesting contribution not only to Scott studies, and to the history of the illustrated book, but also to our understanding of rapidly evolving printing - and publishing-house practices in Edinburgh during the early- to mid-nineteenth century, suggesting yet another way in which Scott and Scotland were at the forefront of technological, industrial, and commercial advances at this pivotal point in publishing history.' Scottish Literary Review

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Writing with Pictures; Chapter 2 Artistic Reciprocity and Authorial Control; Chapter 3 Book Illustration and the Manipulation of Literary Genres; Chapter 4 Conception of Illustrated Waverley Novel; Chapter 5 William Allan, Scott’s Illustrator; Chapter 6 Reconstructing the Tolbooth; Chapter 101 Conclusion; Chapter 102 Catalogue;