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Notes
Thomas Constable, Archibald Constable and his literary correspondents, 3 vols. (1873), 3:310-311.
William Ruff, 'Cancels in Sir Walter Scott's "Life of Napoleon"', Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions 3 (1948-55), 137-151. All quotations are from pp. 139-140.
Archibald Constable, 3:312. The number of volumes and the size of the paper to be used were the subject of further discussion: somewhat cryptically, 30 August 1825, Constable wrote to Scott, who had still not started writing, that 'the four volumes should be of a size to enable us to make three handsome octavos, which hereafter will be the standard form of the work' (Archibald Constable, 3:324); and, less cryptically, 10 October 1825, when Scott had finished writing volume 1, Cadell passed on to Constable Ballantyne's query whether—in view of Scott's advice that there would now be five volumes—'it [would] not be more prudent to make the work in four stout octavos, demy?' (Archibald Constable, 3:367).
The Letters of Sir Walter Scott, ed. H. J. C. Grierson, 12 vols. (1932-37), 9:219, to Constable [9 September 1825].
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