Thomas C. Richardson is Professor of English Emeritus at Mississippi University for Women. He is the editor of Some Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair and The History of Matthew Wald in the Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Works of John Gibson Lockhart, as well as the two-volume edition of James Hogg’s Contributions to Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine in the Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg.

This meticulous edition of John Gibson Lockhart’s first published novel abounds with intrigue, romance, manufactured enmity, and the spread of disinformation. Set in a vivid Roman past, it is a crucial contribution to what Alan Montgomery has recently identified as a Scottish fascination with the richness of Roman antiquarianism.

• Preliminary Matter and Aims of the EditionVolume Editor’s AcknowledgementsIntroductionText of Valerius, A Roman StoryEmendation ListHyphenation ListExplanatory Notes

Thomas C. Richardson is Professor of English Emeritus at Mississippi University for Women. He is the editor of Some Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair and The History of Matthew Wald in the Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Works of John Gibson Lockhart, as well as the two-volume edition of James Hogg’s Contributions to Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine in the Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg.

This meticulous edition of John Gibson Lockhart’s first published novel abounds with intrigue, romance, manufactured enmity, and the spread of disinformation. Set in a vivid Roman past, it is a crucial contribution to what Alan Montgomery has recently identified as a Scottish fascination with the richness of Roman antiquarianism.

• Preliminary Matter and Aims of the EditionVolume Editor’s AcknowledgementsIntroductionText of Valerius, A Roman StoryEmendation ListHyphenation ListExplanatory Notes