For example, a fresh pedantry of the Baron of Bradwardine's is occasionally set down on the opposite page.

Nothing can be less like the method of Flaubert or the method of Mr.Ruskin, who tells us that "a sentence of 'Modern Painters' was often written four or five tunes over in my own hand, and tried in every word for perhaps an hour,--perhaps a forenoon,--before it was passed for the printer." Each writer has his method; Scott was no stipples or niggler, but, as we shall see later, he often altered much in his proof-sheets.
[While speaking of correction, it may be noted that Scott, in his "Advertisement" prefixed to the issue of 1829, speaks of changes made in that collected edition.

In "Waverley" these emendations are very rare, and are unimportant.

A few callidae juncturae are added, a very few lines are deleted.

The postscript of the first edition did not contain the anecdote about the hiding-place of the manuscript among the fishing tackle.