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Case 21 - History and Literary biography

Sir Walter Scott. <em>The miscellaneous prose works of Sir Walter Scott, bart.</em> [1st edition] Edinburgh: Printed for Cadell and Co., Edinburgh; and Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London, 1827. Six volumes; Vol. 1 displayed.

Sir Walter Scott. The miscellaneous prose works of Sir Walter Scott, bart. [1st edition] Edinburgh: Printed for Cadell and Co., Edinburgh; and Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London, 1827. Six volumes; Vol. 1 displayed.

As well as poetry, novels and drama, Scott also wrote important works on literature and history. The miscellaneous prose works includes a number of his collected biographical works on eminent British literary figures, including his Life of Dryden, first published in 1808, as part of an 18 volume edition of The works of John Dryden.

Sir Walter Scott. <em>The miscellaneous prose works of Sir Walter Scott, bart.</em> [1st edition] Edinburgh: Printed for Cadell and Co., Edinburgh; and Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London, 1827. Six volumes; Vol. 1 displayed.

Sir Walter Scott. The miscellaneous prose works of Sir Walter Scott, bart. [1st edition] Edinburgh: Printed for Cadell and Co., Edinburgh; and Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London, 1827. Six volumes; Vol. 1 displayed.
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Sir Walter Scott. <em>The miscellaneous prose works of Sir Walter Scott, bart.</em> [1st edition] Edinburgh: Printed for Cadell and Co., Edinburgh; and Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London, 1827. Six volumes; Vol. 6 displayed.

Sir Walter Scott. The miscellaneous prose works of Sir Walter Scott, bart. [1st edition] Edinburgh: Printed for Cadell and Co., Edinburgh; and Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London, 1827. Six volumes; Vol. 6 displayed.

Among Scott’s most forgotten works are his essays as a critic of literature, including An essay on chivalry, An essay on the drama and his Essay on romance, which was originally written in 1823 for Encyclopaedia Britannica. In this essay he describes Romance as characterised by “marvellous and uncommon incidents.” Scott subtitled three Waverley novels “a romance’: Ivanhoe, The monastery, and Kenilworth.

Sir Walter Scott. <em>The miscellaneous prose works of Sir Walter Scott, bart.</em> [1st edition] Edinburgh: Printed for Cadell and Co., Edinburgh; and Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London, 1827. Six volumes; Vol. 6 displayed.

Sir Walter Scott. The miscellaneous prose works of Sir Walter Scott, bart. [1st edition] Edinburgh: Printed for Cadell and Co., Edinburgh; and Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London, 1827. Six volumes; Vol. 6 displayed.
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[Sir Walter Scott]. <em>Tales from a grandfather: being stories taken from the history of France.</em> [1st edition]. Printed for Robert Cadell, Edinburgh; Whittaker and Co., London; and John Cumming, Dublin, 1831. Three volumes; Vol. 1 displayed.

[Sir Walter Scott]. Tales from a grandfather: being stories taken from the history of France. [1st edition]. Printed for Robert Cadell, Edinburgh; Whittaker and Co., London; and John Cumming, Dublin, 1831. Three volumes; Vol. 1 displayed.

The earlier three series of The tales of a grandfather, published between 1827 and 1829, comprised a history of Scotland up until the Jacobite rebellion of 1745-46. Dunedin Public Libraries possesses the first edition of the later series detailing the history of France from Charlemagne to Louis XIV.

[Sir Walter Scott]. <em>Tales from a grandfather: being stories taken from the history of France.</em> [1st edition]. Printed for Robert Cadell, Edinburgh; Whittaker and Co., London; and John Cumming, Dublin, 1831. Three volumes; Vol. 1 displayed.

[Sir Walter Scott]. Tales from a grandfather: being stories taken from the history of France. [1st edition]. Printed for Robert Cadell, Edinburgh; Whittaker and Co., London; and John Cumming, Dublin, 1831. Three volumes; Vol. 1 displayed.
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[Sir Walter Scott]. <em>Tales from a grandfather: being stories taken from the history of France</em>. [1st edition]. Printed for Robert Cadell, Edinburgh; Whittaker and Co., London; and John Cumming, Dublin, 1831. Three volumes; Vol. 2 displayed.

[Sir Walter Scott]. Tales from a grandfather: being stories taken from the history of France. [1st edition]. Printed for Robert Cadell, Edinburgh; Whittaker and Co., London; and John Cumming, Dublin, 1831. Three volumes; Vol. 2 displayed.

Written during Scott’s time of insolvency, the Talesproved conveniently lucrative. A second French series was planned, and the first volume completed, before Scott received news of the death of his beloved ten-year-old grandson John Hugh Lockhart. Scott never returned to the unfinished manuscript.

[Sir Walter Scott]. <em>Tales from a grandfather: being stories taken from the history of France</em>. [1st edition]. Printed for Robert Cadell, Edinburgh; Whittaker and Co., London; and John Cumming, Dublin, 1831. Three volumes; Vol. 2 displayed.

[Sir Walter Scott]. Tales from a grandfather: being stories taken from the history of France. [1st edition]. Printed for Robert Cadell, Edinburgh; Whittaker and Co., London; and John Cumming, Dublin, 1831. Three volumes; Vol. 2 displayed.
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