Memoirs of Captain Carleton, ... including anecdotes of the war in Spain under the Earl of Peterborough, ... written by himself. Edinburgh. (8vo, but 25 copies were printed on large paper.) [Edited by Scott anonymously.]
Scott was probably mistaken in considering this to be a genuine autobiography. (See Col. Parnell’s argument in The English Historical Review, vi:97.) It has been attributed to Defoe, and Col. Parnell attributes it to Swift, but the question of its authorship is still unsolved. The book was first published in 1728, but Scott used the edition of 1743, which he was so inaccurate as to take for the original edition; and as at that date Defoe had long been dead and Swift had lost his mind, the possibility of attributing it to either of them naturally would not occur to him. Scott wrote scarcely any notes, but his short introduction contains some interesting general reflections which are quoted by Lockhart.
The Works of John Dryden, now first collected;
illustrated with notes,
historical, critical and explanatory,
and a life of the author, by
Walter Scott, Esq. 18 vols. London.
Second edition, 18 vols., Edinburgh, 1821.
Another edition,
revised and corrected by George Saintsbury,
Edinburgh, 1882-1893.
The Life of John Dryden (4to, only 50 copies printed).
Memoirs of John Dryden, Paris, 1826.
Memoirs of Robert Carey, Earl of Monmouth, written by himself, and Fragmenta Regalia, being a history of Queen Elizabeth’s favourites, by Sir Robert Naunton. With explanatory annotations. Edinburgh. [Edited by Scott anonymously.]
Scott contributed no introductions, but his notes are copious, especially with regard to the history of the Border. This is one of the books of which Scott is reported to have said to his publisher, Mr. Constable, “Did I not do Hodgson, Carey, Carleton, etc., to serve you; and did I ever ask or receive any remuneration?” (Ballantyne’s Refutation, etc., p. 76.)
Queenhoo-Hall, a romance; and Ancient
Times, a drama. By the late
Joseph Strutt, author of Rural Sports
and Pastimes of the People of
England. [Edited by Scott, who wrote a
conclusion for Queenhoo-Hall.
This conclusion is given in an appendix
to the introduction of
Waverley.] Edinburgh.
1809
The State Papers and Letters of Sir Ralph
Sadler ... edited by Arthur
Clifford ... to which is added a memoir
of the life of Sir Ralph
Sadler, with historical notes, by Walter
Scott, Esq. 2 vols.
Edinburgh. (Also the same work in 3 vols.,
with same date.)
The biography
is included in all the editions of Scott’s Prose
Works.