Editing Rob Roy (novel) (section)

==Editions==
The first edition, in three volumes, dated 1818, was published in Edinburgh on 30 December 1817 by [[Archibald Constable]] and Co. and in London on 13 January 1818 by [[Longman]], Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. <ref>McMullin, B.J. (2023). "The Early Editions of Rob Roy." ''The Library: Transaction of the Bibliographical Society.'' Seventh Series. 24: 487-495. (December).</ref> As with all the [[Waverley novels]] before 1827 publication was anonymous. The print run was 10,000 and the price £1 4''s''.<ref>William B. Todd and Ann Bowden, ''Sir Walter Scott: A Bibliographical History 1796–1832'', 439.</ref> Scott was involved in only two of the subsequent editions of the novel. In 1823, he made significant changes to the text for the 18-month ''Novels and Tales'', though that was essentially a textual dead end. At the end of 1828, he revised the text for the 'Magnum' edition somewhat sporadically and provided notes and a very long introduction; it appeared as Volumes 7 and 8 in December 1829 and January 1830.<ref>''Rob Roy'', ed. David Hewitt (Edinburgh, 2008), 375–86.</ref> 

The standard modern edition by David Hewitt was published as Volume 5 of the [[Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels]] in 2008. This is based on the first edition with emendations principally from Scott's manuscript; the new Magnum material is included in Volume 25a.