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econd series.
1829-32
Novels, Tales, and Romances, with introductions and notes by the
author. (The "Opus Magnum.")
The same material is used in the following books:
Introductions and notes and illustrations to the novels, tales,
and romances of the author of Waverley. 3 vols., Edinburgh, 1833.
Autobiography of Sir Walter Scott. Philadelphia, 1831. Anderson,
in his bibliography of Scott, gives this as a supposititious work,
but with the exception of the title it is genuine, for it is
simply the piecing together of Scott's introductions to his
novels.
1830
Tales of a Grandfather. Third series.
The Doom of Devorgoil, and Auchindrane or The Ayrshire Tragedy.
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, addressed to J.G. Lockhart,
Esq. London. (The Family Library.)
Other editions: New York, 1845; London, 1868 and 1876,
(illustrated by Cruikshank); London 1884, with an introduction by
Henry Morley. Included in the 30 vol. edition of the Miscellaneous
Prose works, but not in the 28 vol. edition.
Poems, with prefaces by the author. 11 vols. Introductory Remarks on
Popular Poetry (prefixed to Minstrelsy, Vol. I) and Essay on Imitations
of the Ancient Ballad (prefixed to Minstrelsy, Vol. III).
These essays were printed in 1830 and attached to the edition of
the poems then on sale. They were first regularly included in the
edition of 1833.
The History of Scotland. (Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia.) 2 vols.
London. [Not in the Miscellaneous Prose Works.]
1831
Tales of a Grandfather. Fourth series. History of France.
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., including a Journal of his Tour to
the Hebrides, by James Boswell, Esq. New edition with numerous
anecdotes and notes by The Right Hon. John Wilson Croker, M.P.... 10
vols. London. [Scott wrote and signed the notes for the Tour to the
Hebrides.]
Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald, for
the murder of Arthur Davis, Sergeant in General Guise's regiment of
foot. June, A.D. 1754. Edinburgh.
"To the members of the Bannatyne Club, this copy of a trial,
involving a curious point of evidence, is presented, by Walter
Scott." There is an introduction of 11 pages, giving the story of
the crime, and bringing together instances from literature and
history of the evidence of ghosts being
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