Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature eBook

Margaret Ball
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 264 pages of information about Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature.

Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature eBook

Margaret Ball
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 264 pages of information about Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature.

      Reprinted in 1846, 1853, 1864.  This last edition, in the Bohn
      Library, has about 100 pp. of historical notes.

  Secret History of the Court of James the First.  With notes and
  introductory remarks. 2 vols.  Edinburgh. [Edited by Scott
  anonymously.]

      The book contains 1.  Osborne’s Traditional Memoirs; 2.  Sir Anthony
      Welldon’s Court and Character of King James; 3.  Aulicus
      Coquinariae; 4.  Sir Edward Peyton’s Divine Catastrophe of the
      House of Stuarts.

1813
  Rokeby.

  Memoirs of the Reign of King Charles I., by Sir Philip Warwick. 
  Edinburgh. [Edited by Scott anonymously.]

  The Bridal of Triermain.

1814
  Illustrations of Northern Antiquities from the earlier Teutonic and
  Scandinavian romances, by Robert Jamieson ... with an abstract of the
  Eyrbyggja-Saga; being the early annals of that district of Iceland
  lying around the promontory called Sudefells, by Walter Scott. 
  Edinburgh.

      See also Northern Antiquities by P.H.  Mallet, London, 1847; and
      the edition in Bohn’s Library, 1890.

Lockhart says:  “Any one who examines the share of the work which goes under Weber’s name will see that Scott had a considerable hand in that also.  The rhymed versions from the Nibelungen Lied came, I can have no doubt, from his pen.” (Lockhart, II, 320.)

  The Works of Jonathan Swift, containing additional letters, tracts,
  and poems, not hitherto published; with notes and a life of the
  author, by Walter Scott. 19 vols.  Edinburgh.

      Second edition, revised, Edinburgh, 1824.

      Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, Paris, 1826.

  The Letting of Humour’s Blood in the Head Vaine, etc.  By Samuel
  Rowlands.  Edinburgh. [Edited by Scott.  His name is not given, but the
  Advertisement is dated at Abbotsford.]

      This is an exact reproduction of the 1611 edition, except for the
      addition of a few pages containing the Advertisement and the
      notes.  Another edition was printed in 1815.

  Waverley.

1814-17
  The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland; comprising specimens
  of architecture and sculpture, and other vestiges of former ages,
  accompanied by descriptions.  Together with illustrations of remarkable
  incidents in Border history and tradition, and original poetry.  By
  Walter Scott, Esq. 2 vols. 4to.  London.

      Another edition, in 2 vols. folio, London, 1889.

      Lockhart says the introduction to this work was written in 1817,
      but this is a mistake, for it is in the first volume, which was
      published in 1814.

1815
  The Lord of the Isles.

  Guy Mannering.

  The Field of Waterloo.

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