Front matter
Reading edition
E-text prepared by Mike Mariano from page images generously made available by the Making of America Collection of the Cornell University Library (http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/) and revised by Joseph E. Loewenstein, M.D., using illustrations generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org)
Editorial Note: The Claverings was published first in serial form in the The Cornhill Magazine from February, 1866, to May, 1867, and then in book form by Smith, Elder and Co. in 1867. The Cornhill version contained 16 full-page illustrations and 16 quarter-page vignettes by Mary Ellen Edwards, a respected and successful illustrator. The Smith, Elder first edition contained only the full-page illustrations. Both the full-page illustrations and the vignettes are included in this e-book. Images of the original illustrations are available through Internet Archive. For Chapters I-XV see https://archive.org/details/claverings01trolrich Chapters XVI-XXXIII see https://archive.org/details/claverings02trolrich and Chapters XXXIV-XLVIII see https://archive.org/details/claverings03trolrich