Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by Frederic Leighton, Edmund John Niemann and Daniel Maclise. Wales in the reign of Henry II: a Norman lord goes on crusade and leaves his betrothed to hold a castle on the marches, with her father's Welsh enemies below and a kinsman inside who is not to be trusted. Scott wrote it under his own shadow — anonymous, prolific, and by then in debt — and it is his only novel of the Welsh border. Fifty-four plates by painters including Daniel Maclise and Henry Dawson range across ruined castles and historic scenes, matching the novel's own landscape of siege and divided loyalty.