Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 43678-h.htm or 43678-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43678/43678-h/43678-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43678/43678-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://archive.org/details/anneofgeiersteinsco01scotuoft Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). Waverley Novels Forty-Eight Volumes Volume XLIII. Border Edition The Introductory Essays and Notes by Andrew Lang to this Edition of the Waverley Novels are Copyright [Illustration: THE DUEL. Drawn and Etched by R. de Los Rios] ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN by SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. With Introductory Essay and Notes by Andrew Lang Ten Etchings VOLUME I. London John C. Nimmo 14, King William Street, Strand MDCCCXCIV Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. At the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh THIS EDITION OF THE WAVERLEY NOVELS, THE BORDER EDITION, IS DEDICATED BY THE PUBLISHER TO THE HON. MRS. MAXWELL SCOTT OF ABBOTSFORD AND HER CHILDREN, WALTER, MARY, MICHAEL, ALICE, MALCOLM, MARGARET, AND HERBERT, GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER AND GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN OF THE AUTHOR. TO The King's Most Gracious Majesty. SIRE, The Author of this Collection of Works of Fiction would not have presumed to solicit for them your Majesty's august patronage, were it not that the perusal has been supposed in some instances to have succeeded in amusing hours of relaxation, or relieving those of languor, pain, or anxiety, and therefore must have so far aided the warmest wish of your Majesty's heart, by contributing in however small a degree to the happiness of your people. They are therefore humbly dedicated to your Majesty, agreeably to your gracious permission, by Your Majesty's Dutiful Subject, WALTER SCOTT. ABBOTSFORD, 1st January, 1829. LIST OF ETCHINGS. PRINTED BY F. GOULDING, LONDON. VOLUME THE FIRST. THE DUEL. Drawn and Etched by R. de Los Rios (p. 99) Frontispiece GEIERSTEIN. Drawn and Etched by R. de Los Rios To face page 48 IN THE STABLE. Drawn and Etched by R. de Los Rios 192 THE EXAMINATION. Drawn and Etched by R. de Los Rios 256 THE EXECUTION. Drawn and Etched by R. de Los Rios 304 ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN; OR, THE MAIDEN OF THE MIST. What! will the aspiring blood of Lancaster Sink in the ground? SHAKSPEARE. EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION TO