Count Robert of Paris condemned by Scotts printer as altogether a failurewas later prepared for publication by his soninlaw J. G. Lockhart and hispublisher Robe... » 

Count Robert of Paris condemned by Scotts printer as altogether a failurewas later prepared for publication by his soninlaw J. G. Lockhart and hispublisher Robert Cadell. What appeared was a bowdlerized tamed and tidiedversion of what Scott had written and dictated. This edition the first to havereturned to the manuscript and to the many surviving proofs realises Scottsoriginal intentions. Scotts last full novel has many roughnesses but it alsochallenges the susceptibilities of his readers more directly than any other andin that lay its fault in the eyes of the lesser men who condemned it. «