The plan of this edition leads me to insert in this place some account of the incidents on which the Novel of Waverley is founded.

They have been already given to the public by my late lamented friend, William Erskine, Esq.

(afterwards Lord Kinneder), when reviewing the Tales of My Landlord for the Quarterly Review in 1817.

The particulars were derived by the critic from the Author's information.

Afterwards they were published in the Preface to the Chronicles of the Canongate.