THE HISTORY OF HAVEREL WIVES.
[The title of the edition reprinted here is:—‘The Folly of Witless Women Displayed; or, the History of Haverel Wives: Written by Humphray Clinker the Clashing Wives Clerk. Being a Comical Conference between Maggy and Janet his two old Aunties. Glasgow: Printed for the Company of Flying Stationers, in Town and Country,MDCCLXXXI.’ It has been collated with an undated edition issued by Morren of Edinburgh, and one published by the Robertsons of Glasgow in 1807; and also with a reprint by D. Webster & Son, Lothian Street, Edinburgh. This last named firm, considering the reprinting of old Scottish popular tales ‘in a more correct and neat form’ than hitherto to be a desideratum, issued this chap-book, along withJanet Clinker’s Oration, as the first number of what they called the ‘Caledonian Classics of the Common People.’John Cheapwas announced as the second number. It should be stated that the 1781 edition here followed is exceptional in respect that theHistory of the Haverel Wivesis given as a separate and distinct publication. It is an 8 pp. 12mo. In all the other editions that have come under the editor’s notice this chap-book andJanet Clinker’s Orationare issued together.]
[The title of the edition reprinted here is:—‘The Folly of Witless Women Displayed; or, the History of Haverel Wives: Written by Humphray Clinker the Clashing Wives Clerk. Being a Comical Conference between Maggy and Janet his two old Aunties. Glasgow: Printed for the Company of Flying Stationers, in Town and Country,MDCCLXXXI.’ It has been collated with an undated edition issued by Morren of Edinburgh, and one published by the Robertsons of Glasgow in 1807; and also with a reprint by D. Webster & Son, Lothian Street, Edinburgh. This last named firm, considering the reprinting of old Scottish popular tales ‘in a more correct and neat form’ than hitherto to be a desideratum, issued this chap-book, along withJanet Clinker’s Oration, as the first number of what they called the ‘Caledonian Classics of the Common People.’John Cheapwas announced as the second number. It should be stated that the 1781 edition here followed is exceptional in respect that theHistory of the Haverel Wivesis given as a separate and distinct publication. It is an 8 pp. 12mo. In all the other editions that have come under the editor’s notice this chap-book andJanet Clinker’s Orationare issued together.]