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PRINTED BY JULES DIDOT, SENIOR,

PRINTER TO HIS MAJESTY, No 6, rue du ponT-DE-LODI.

OR,

'TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE.

BY SIR WALTER SCOTT.

Under which king, Bezonian? speak, or die!

Henry IV. Part II.

NEW EDITION,

WITH THE AUTHOR'S NOTES, ETC.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

PARIS:

PUBLISHED BY A. AND W. GALIGNANI,

AT THE ENGLISH, french, ITALIAN, GERMAN, AND SPANISH LIBRARY,

No 18, RUE VIVIENNE.

1830.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

It has been the occasional occupation of the Author of Waverley, for several years past, to revise and correct the voluminous series of Novels which pass under that name; in order that, if they should ever appear as his avowed productions, he might render them in some degree deserving of a continuance of the public favour with which they have been honoured ever since their first appearance. For a long period, however, it seemed likely that the improved and illustrated edition which he meditated would be a posthumous publication. But the course of the events which occasioned the disclosure of the Author's name, having, in a great measure, restored to him a sort of parental control over these Works, he is naturally induced to give them to the press in a corrected, and, he hopes, an improved form, while life and health permit the task of revising and illustrating them. Such being his purpose, it is necessary to say a few words on the plan of the proposed Edition.

In stating it to be revised and corrected, it is not to be inferred that any attempt is made to alter the tenor of the stories, the character of the actors, or

VOL. I.

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