Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), April 26, 1845, vol. 1, no. 17, p. ???-???

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THE WAVERLY NOVELS, by Sir Walter Scott: with the Author's latest corrections and additions. Complete in Five Volumes. (3340 pages) for Two Dollars and Fifty cents. Vol 1. Contents — Waverly, Guy Mannering, Antiquary, Rob Roy, Black Dwarf, Old Mortality. Philadelphia: Carey & Hart.

The first consideration forcing itself on the mind while looking over such a volume as this, is, what might have been thought, before the invention of printing, of the proposition to sell this amount dreading matter for fifty cents. Here are 700 pages, printed in close minion type, profusely interspersed with nonpareil, in double columns large octavo, on very good paper — and all for half a dollar! The most astounding miracles of Mesmerism, if fairly examined, would be found scarcely more really marvellous than this. [pag 268:]

We observe that unusual care has been taken in getting up this edition. The typography is very correct, and the five volumes bound or unbound, would form a valuable addition to any library which chances to be without a copy of Scott's novels.