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 with Janet Clinker’s Oration, as the first number of what they called the ‘Caledonian Classics of the Common People.’ John Cheap was announced as the second number. It should be stated that the 1781 edition here followed is exceptional in respect that the History of the Haverel Wives is 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 and Janet Clinker’s Oration are issued together.]