On June 1824, publication of Walter Scott’s Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century in Edinburgh and London with attribution to the “Author of Waverley.” Image: Portrait of Sir Walter Scott by Henry Raeburn, oil on canvas (1822), owned by National Galleries of Scotland. This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired.

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