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its exactness,' as 'perfectly provoking '1; and a fellow-countryman, with all the instincts of a bibliographer, has more aptly said of him:

Summing up the thousands upon thousands of volumes upon all matters of human study and in many languages, which he has passed through his hands, you think he has merely dipped into them or skimmed them, or in some other shape put them to superficial use. You are wrong; he has found his way at once to the very heart of the living matter of each one; between it and him there are henceforth no secrets 2.

The Book-Hunter, a discursive volume describing the delights of book-collecting, was written by John Hill Burton, the publication of whose History of Scotland led to his appointment as historiographer royal for that country. A Scotsman who lived long in England, Andrew Lang, wrote a delightful volume, The Library (1881), besides discoursing on 'Elzevirs' and on 'Bibliomania in France' in his Books and Bookmen (1887).

A Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain was published in 1882-8 by Samuel Halkett, keeper of the Advocates' library (of which he planned the catalogue), and John Laing, librarian of the New college, Edinburgh, author of the excellent catalogue of its library. The religious history of the sixteenth century was the special province of Thomas Graves Law, keeper of the Signet library, Edinburgh, from 1876 to 1904, whose Collected Essays appeared in the latter years. Finally, a new catalogue of the Glasgow university library (with an excellent subject-index) has been prepared by William Purdie Dickson, honorary curator of the library, and papers on the bibliography of chemistry and technology have been written by John Ferguson, of Glasgow, author of Bibliotheca Chemica (1906), Witchcraft Literature of Scotland, and Some Aspects of Bibliography with a list of special bibliographies in the appendix (1907)*.

1 Wight, O. W., transl. of Cousin's History of Modern Philosophy, vol. 11, p. 335, 1854. Cf. De Quincey's Essays, vol. v, pp. 314 f., ed. Masson.

2 Burton, John Hill, The Book-Hunter, pp. 77 f., ed. 1909.

3 As to John Hill Burton, Andrew Lang and T. G. Law, see a later volume of this History.

• See, also, the bibliography of the present chapter.

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Scott's Journal and much of his correspondence are preserved privately at Abbotsford, as are also the collections of ballad versions which he utilised for Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. In the Abbotsford library, which by his will is preserved intact as he left it, and is accessible for consultation on certain conditions, are a number of miscellaneous MSS and collections, including various translations of German dramas which he did not publish, and also his notes when a student at the class of Scots law. The original MSS of most of Scott's poems and novels are in existence, but the majority are now in the hands of private collectors. Of several MSS of the novels at one time in the possession of Ruskin, only that of The Fortunes of Nigel is now at Brantwood. In the British Museum is the MS of the most of Kenilworth; various letters of Scott to George Thomson, with verses for his Scottish Airs; the proofsheets of Woodstock with the author's corrections and additions; eighteen letters to James Ballantyne about the work, and Ballantyne's criticisms; a copy of The Life of Napoleon with MS corrections and notes by Scott; and a portion of an edition of Swift's Works used by Scott, with MS notes by him. The MSS of Marmion and Waverley are preserved in the Advocates' library, Edinburgh. Portions of Kenilworth and The Legend of Montrose, original correspondence and verses belonging to Scott and various letters from him, are included in the Laing collection in the university of Edinburgh. The publishing firm of A. & C. Black, London, possesses Scott's annotated edition of the Waverley novels, in 44 volumes, full of textual corrections by him; and bound up in vol. I are the MSS of the introductions, etc. published in the first collected edition.

II. POETRY

A. Collected Editions

The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, with the Notes by the Author. 12 vols. Edinburgh, 1820.

Poetical Works. 7 vols. Paris, 1821 and 1827.

11 vols. Edinburgh, 1830.

Ed. Lockhart, J. L., with illustrations on steel from drawings by Turner, J. M. W. Edinburgh, 1833-4 and 1848.

Ed., with memoir and critical dissertation, by Gilfillan, G. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1857.

The Globe edition, with a biographical and critical memoir by Palgrave, F. T. 1866, and later edns.

Poetical Works. With a critical memoir by Rossetti, W. M., and illustrations by Seccombe, T. 1870.

With prefatory notice, biographical and critical, by Sharp, W. 2 vols. 1885-6.

Ed. Minto, W. 2 vols. 1891-2.

Oxford complete edn. Ed. Robertson, J. L. 1904.

Ed. Lang, A. 1905.

B. Separate Works

The Chase and William and Helen: two ballads from the German of Gottfried A. Bürger. [Anonymous.] Edinburgh and London, 1796. Apology for Tales of Terror. Kelso, 1799. [Only about 12 copies printed. Includes his Bürger translations, and a few other ballads afterwards included in M. G. Lewis's Tales of Wonder, 1801.]

The Eve of St John: a Border Ballad. Kelso, 1800.

Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Vols. I and II. Kelso, 1802. Vol. III. London and Edinburgh, 1803. [Includes original ballads by Scott and others.] 3rd and more complete edn. 1803. Various subsequent edns with changes and additional notes. Posthumous edn with additional notes by Lockhart, J. G. 1833. New edn with additional notes and various readings by Henderson, T. F. 4 vols. Edinburgh and New York, 1902. Rearranged edn with introduction by Noyes, A., in one vol. Edinburgh, 1908.

The Lay of the Last Minstrel. 1805. 6th edn with notes. 1807. 8th edn with Ballads and Lyrical Pieces. Illustrated. 1808.

Ballads and Lyrical Pieces. 1806.

Marmion: a Tale of Flodden Field. 1808.

The Lady of the Lake; a poem. Edinburgh, 1810.

The Vision of Don Roderick. Edinburgh, 1811.

Glenfinlas and other Ballads, with the Vision of Don Roderick. Edinburgh, 1812.

Rokeby, a Poem. Edinburgh, 1813.

The Bridal of Triermain; or the Vale of St John. Edinburgh, 1813.

The Field of Waterloo; a Poem. Edinburgh, 1815.

The Lord of the Isles; a Poem in six cantos. 1815.

The Vision of Don Roderick, The Field of Waterloo and other poems. Edinburgh, 1815.

The Ettricke Garland, being two excellent new songs [one by Scott and the other by Hogg, J.]. Edinburgh, 1815.

Various songs in Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice by Thomson, George, 6 vols., 1793–1811; and in Albyn's Anthology, ed. Campbell, A., 2 vols., Edinburgh, 1816 and 1818.

Harold the Dauntless; a Poem in six cantos. Edinburgh, 1817.

Ballad of the Noble Moringer. In The Edinburgh Annual Register. 1817. The Bridal of Triermain and Harold the Dauntless. Edinburgh, 1818.

Miscellaneous Poems. Edinburgh, 1820.

The Poetry contained in the Novels, Tales and Romances of the Author of Waverley. Edinburgh, 1822.

Halidon Hill; a Metrical Romance in two acts. 1822.

Macduff's Cross; a Dramatic Sketch. First published in Joanna Baillie's Collection of Poetical Miscellanies. 1822. Republished with the Doom of Devorgoil, Halidon Hill and Auchindrane, or the Ayrshire Tragedy. Edinburgh, 1830.

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Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley. 16 vols. Edinburgh, 1821. 12 vols. Edinburgh, 1823.

Historical Romances of the Author of Waverley. 8 vols. Edinburgh, 1822. 6 vols. Edinburgh, 1824.

Novels and Romances of the Author of Waverley. 9 vols. Edinburgh, 1824. 7 vols. Edinburgh, 1825.

Tales and Romances of the Author of Waverley. Illustrated edn with introductions and notes. 20 vols. Edinburgh, 1827-33. Another edn, 16 vols. Edinburgh, 1828–33.

The Waverley Novels. Author's Favourite edn [illustrated with 96 steel plates]. 48 vols. Edinburgh, 1830-4.

Cabinet edn. 25 vols. Edinburgh, 1841-3.

Abbotsford edn. [With many steel and wood engravings.] 12 vols. Edinburgh, 1842-7.

· Library edn. 25 vols. 1852-3.

Illustrated Roxburghe edn. 48 vols. Edinburgh, 1859-61.

Centenary edn. Edinburgh, 1870-1.

Édition de Luxe. 25 vols. 1882-98.

Dryburgh edn. 25 vols. 1890-1900.

Border Illustrated edn. [With introductory essays and notes by Lang, A.] 48 vols. 1892-4, and later reprints.

Oxford edn. 25 vols. Oxford, 1912.

B. Separate Novels

Waverley, or 'Tis Sixty Years Since. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1814.

Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer. By the Author of Waverley. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1815.

The Antiquary. By the Author of Waverley, and Guy Mannering. 3 vols.
Edinburgh, 1816.

Tales of My Landlord. Collected and arranged by Jedidiah Cleishbotham.
[The Black Dwarf and Old Mortality.] 4 vols. Edinburgh, 1816.
Tales of My Landlord. Second series [The Heart of Midlothian]. 4 vols.
Edinburgh, 1818.

Rob Roy. By the Author of Waverley. Edinburgh, 1818.

Tales of My Landlord. Third series [The Bride of Lammermoor and The Legend of Montrose]. 4 vols. Edinburgh, 1819.

Ivanhoe. A Romance. By the Author of Waverley. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1820.

The Monastery. A Romance. By the Author of Waverley. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1820.

The Abbot. Ry the Author of Waverley. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1820. Kenilworth. A Romance. By the Author of Waverley. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1821.

The Pirate. By the Author of Waverley. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1822.

The Fortunes of Nigel. By the Author of Waverley. 4 vols. Edinburgh, 1822.

Peveril of the Peak. By the Author of Waverley. 4 vols. Edinburgh, 1822. Quentin Durward. By the Author of Waverley. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1823. St Ronan's Well. By the Author of Waverley. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1824. Redgauntlet: a tale of the eighteenth century. By the Author of Waverley. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1824.

Tales of the Crusades. [Vols. I and II, The Betrothed; vols. III and IV, The Talisman.] Edinburgh, 1825.

Woodstock; or the Cavalier. A tale of the year sixteen hundred and fiftyone. By the Author of Waverley. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1826.

Chronicles of the Canongate [The Highland Widow; The Two Drovers; and The Surgeon's Daughter. With an introduction by Scott, acknowledging the authorship of the Waverley novels]. 2 vols. Edinburgh,

1827. Chronicles of the Canongate. Second series [St Valentine's Day; or The Fair Maid of Perth]. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1828.

Anne of Geierstein; or The Maiden of the Mist. By the Author of Waverley. 3 vols.

1829.

Tales of My Landlord. Fourth and last series [Count Robert of Paris and Castle Dangerous]. 4 vols. 1832.

IV. MISCELLANEOUS WORKS

A. Collected Editions

Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott. 6 vols. Edinburgh, 1827. Introductions, Notes and Illustrations to the Novels, Tales and Romances of the Author of Waverley. 3 vols. 1833.

The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott. 30 vols. 1834-71. [Includes his numerous contributions to The Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews, etc.]

The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Edinburgh, 1836. [Introductory Remarks on Popular Poetry, prefixed to an edition of Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border; and the new introductions, etc., to his principal poetical romances.]

B. Separate Works

Goetz of Berlichingen, with the Iron Hand: a tragedy translated from the
German of Goethe. 1799.

The Eyrbiggia Saga. [Contributed to Weber's Northern Antiquities.] 1814.
Essays on Chivalry and the Drama. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1814.
The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland. 2 vols. 1814-17.
Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk. Edinburgh, 1816.

Provincial Antiquities of Scotland. In 10 parts, 1819-26, and in 2 vols.
Edinburgh, 1826.

Description of the Regalia of Scotland. 1819, and later edns. [Rptd from the Provincial Antiquities.]

Lives of the Novelists, prefixed to Ballantyne's Novelists' Library. 1821-4. Published separately in 2 vols. Paris, 1825.

Sketch of the Life and Character of the late Lord Kinneder. [Privately printed.] Edinburgh, 1822.

Essay on Romance. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1822.

Thoughts on the proposed change of Currency. [Three letters to the Editor of the Edinburgh Weekly Journal from Malachi Malagrowther, Esqr.] Edinburgh, 1826.

The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French. With a Preliminary view of the French Revolution. By the Author of Waverley. 9 vols. Edinburgh, 1827.

Discourses of a Layman. 1828. [Two sermons written for a young preacher.] Tales of a Grandfather, being stories taken from Scottish History. Humbly inscribed to Hugh Littlejohn, Esqr. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1828. Second series. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1829.

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