Kinmont Willie: a Border ballad, with an historical introduction,
by Sir Walter Scott. (Carlisle Tracts No. 6) Carlisle, 1841.
A Ballad Book by C.K. Sharpe. MDCCCXXIII. Reprinted with notes and
ballads from the unpublished manuscripts of C.K. Sharpe and Sir
Walter Scott ... edited by ... D. Laing. Edinburgh, 1880.
1804
Sir Tristrem: a metrical romance of the thirteenth century, by Thomas
of Ercildoune, called the Rhymer. Edited from the Auchinleck
manuscript by Walter Scott. Edinburgh.
Only 12 copies of Sir Tristrem were printed in the form in which
Scott had intended to publish it, without the expurgation which
his friends insisted upon. (_Letters to R. Polwhele_, etc., p. 18;
_Lockhart_, I. 361). The following book contains a part of the
same material:
A Penni worth of Witte, Florice and Blancheflour, and other pieces
of ancient English poetry, selected from the Auchinleck
manuscript. (With an account of the Auchinleck manuscript by Sir
Walter Scott) Edinburgh, 1857. Printed for the Abbotsford Club.
1805
The Lay of the Last Minstrel.
1806
Original Memoirs written during the great civil war; being the life of
Sir H. Slingsby, and memoirs of Capt. Hodgson. With notes, etc.
Edinburgh. [Edited by Scott anonymously.]
Ballads and Lyrical Pieces. [Poems which had already appeared in
various collections.]
1808
Marmion.
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
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