(In the following list the first editions of the poems and novels
are noted without bibliographical details. In the case of other
works the main facts in regard to publication are given; and an
attempt is made to indicate the nature of the books named, unless
they have been discussed in the text.)
1796
The Chase and William and Helen. (Translated from Buerger.)
1799
Goetz of Berlichingen. (Translated from Goethe.)
Apology for Tales of Terror.
Twelve copies were privately printed, to exhibit the work of the
Ballantyne press at Kelso. The title was occasioned by the delay
in the publication of Matthew Lewis's Tales of Terror, and the
little book contains poems which Scott had contributed to that
work. (The contents are named in the Catalogue of the Centenary
Exhibition.)
1800
The Eve of St. John, a Border ballad.
1802-3
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border; consisting of historical and
romantic ballads, collected in the southern counties of Scotland; with
a few of modern date founded upon local tradition.
3 vols. Vols. I and 2, Kelso, 1802; vol. 3, Edinburgh, 1803.
Second edition, 1803. The book was republished frequently before
1830, when it was included in the collected edition of Scott's
poems. It has also been reprinted independently since then several
times. The latest and most complete edition is that published in
1902, edited by T.F. Henderson. Other books in which part of
Scott's ballad material was used in such a way as to give his name
a place on the title-page are named below:
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ballads from the unpublished manuscripts of C.K. Sharpe and Sir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.]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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