The printing, at last, must have been very speedy.

Dining in Edinburgh, in June, 1814, Lockhart saw "the hand of Walter Scott" busy at its task.

"Page after page is finished, and thrown on the heap of manuscripts, and still it goes on unwearied." The book was published on July 7, the press hardly keeping up with the activity of the author.
Scott had written "two volumes in three summer weeks" and the printers had not shown less activity, while binders and stitchers must have worked extra tides.
"Waverley" was published without the Author's name.

Scott's reasons for being anonymous have been stated by himself.

"It was his humour,"-- that is the best of the reasons and the secret gave him a great deal of amusement.