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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. The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies, by Robert Kirk. The attribution of this to Scott rests on a letter by George Ticknor, in Allibone's Dictionary (vol. II, p. 1967) in which he says: "Kirk's Secret Commonwealth, a curious tract, of about a hundred quarto pages, on Fairy Superstitions and second sight, originally published in 1691, and of which, in 1815, Mr. Scott had caused a hundred copies to be privately printed by the Ballantynes, with additions, a circumstance, I think, not noted by Lockhart." Mr. Lang thinks the book was never printed until 1815. (See his edition, London, 1893). This 1815 edition of 100 copies was made, he says, from a manuscript copy preserved in the Advocates' Library, for Longman & Co. He quotes one of Scott's references to the book, but does not intimate that Scott was the editor. Memorie of the Somervilles; being a history of the baronial house of Somerville, by James, eleventh Lord Somerville. 2 vols. Edinburgh. [Edited by Scott anonymously.] The additions by the editor consist of a short preface and abundant notes. 1816 Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk. Edinburgh. These letters were anonymous, but Scott was always recognized as the author of them. They are contained in the Miscellaneous Prose Works. The Antiquary. Tales of my Landlord. First series: The Black Dwarf. Old Mortality. 1817 Harold the Dauntless. Rob Roy. 1818 Tales of my Landlord. Second series: The Heart of Midlothian. Burt's Letters from the North of Scotland ... the fifth edition, with a large appendix, containing various important historical documents, hitherto unpublished; with an introduction and notes, by the editor, R. Jamieson ... and the history of Donald the Hammerer, from an authentic account of the family of Invernahyle (by Scott: see a note accompanying the text). 2 vols. Lo
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