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.

  Description of the Regalia of Scotland.  Edinburgh.

      This has been reprinted many times.  It was included also in
      Provincial Antiquities.

  Ivanhoe.

1819-26
  The Provincial Antiquities and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland, with
  descriptive illustrations by Sir Walter Scott, Bart. [First published
  in ten parts between 1819 and 1826.] 2 vols.  London, 1826. 4to.

1820
  The Monastery.

  The Abbot.

  Memorials of the Haliburtons.  Edinburgh. [Edited by Scott
  anonymously.]

      30 copies were printed in 1820, and 30 more in 1824.

      Reprinted, London, 1877, for the Royal Historical Society, in
      Genealogical Memoirs of the Family of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., of
      Abbotsford, by the Rev. Charles Rogers, LL.D.

  Trivial Poems and Triolets.  Written in obedience to Mrs. Tomkin’s
  commands.  By Patrick Carey.  London. [Edited by Scott.  His name is not
  given, but the introduction is dated at Abbotsford.]

      A thin 4to, with a short introduction and a few notes.  A part of
      the material had been used in the Edinburgh Annual Register for
      1810.

1821
  Northern Memoirs, calculated for the meridian of Scotland.  To which is
  added the contemplative and practical angler.  Writ in the year 1658. 
  By Richard Franck.  A new edition, with preface and notes.  Edinburgh.
  [Edited by Scott.]

  Kenilworth.

  The Pirate.

1821-4
  The Novelists’ Library.  Edited, with prefatory memoirs, by Sir Walter
  Scott. 10 vols.  London.

Also Lives of the Novelists, 2 vols., Paris, 1825.  A recent edition is that published, with an introduction by Austin Dobson, by the Oxford University Press (No. 94 in The World’s Classics).  When these Lives were issued among the Miscellaneous Prose Works some of the biographical prefaces were put with them, and also biographical notices, reprinted from the Edinburgh Weekly Journal, of Charles Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, John Lord Somerville, King George III, Lord Byron, and The Duke of York.  I give below the names of certain books in which Scott’s biographies were utilized, but the list is probably far from complete: 

      An Account of the death and funeral procession of Frederick Duke
      of York, etc.  To which is subjoined Sir Walter Scott’s Character
      of His Royal Highness.  By John Sykes.  Newcastle, 1827.

      The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman.  By Laurence
      Sterne, A.M., with a life of the author, by Sir Walter Scott. 
      Paris, 1832. (Baudry’s Foreign Library.)

      Beauties of Sterne, with some account of his writings by Sir
      Walter Scott.  Amsterdam, 1836.

      Select Works of Smollett.  Memoir by Sir W. Scott.  Philadelphia,
      1849.

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