Complete and unabridged, with 45 full-page plates by Thomas Gainsborough, Joseph Wright of Derby and John Constable. An English officer of romantic temper is posted to Scotland in 1745, is captured by Highlanders, and finds himself at the Pretender's court with a commission he cannot honourably keep. Scott published it anonymously in 1814 and effectively invented the historical novel with it; every European novelist of the next century read it. The rising is shown twice over — as a cause worth dying for and as an anachronism — and Scott refuses to choose. Forty-five plates after Reynolds, Romney and their contemporaries, ranging from battle scenes to country houses and cattle ferries, give a visual record of the age in which Scott's romance unfolds.