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E-Texts of Works Edited by Walter Scott

Follow the links below for online texts of works edited by Walter Scott made available by external sites. Only freely available texts have been listed. The list of texts should not be regarded as comprehensive, but the page editor would be pleased to hear of any significant omissions.

Since this page was inaugurated, a large number of Scott etexts have been made available by the Internet Archive and Google Books. Rather than maintain a full listing of these, we have listed only the earliest edition (in many cases the First Edition) supplied by these providers.

1. Memoirs of Count Grammont
2. Memorie of the Somervilles
3. Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
4. The Poetical Works of Anna Seward
5. 'Private Letters of King James's Reign'
6. Sir Tristrem
7. Somers' Tracts
8. The Works of John Dryden
9. The Works of Jonathan Swift

1. Memoirs of Count Grammont, by Antony Hamilton

• Project Gutenberg
• Pseudopodium (Source Text: London: Henry G. Bohn, 1864)

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2. Memorie of the Somervilles

• Internet Archive (First Edition, and vol. II)

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3. Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border

• Bookrags (vol. I)
• Bookrags (vol. II)
• Electric Scotland (Source Text: Unidentified 1881 edition)
• Humanities Web
• Internet Archive (2nd Edition, vol. I)
• Internet Archive (2nd Edition, vol. II)
• Internet Archive (2nd Edition, vol. III)
• Project Gutenberg (vol. I)
• Project Gutenberg (vol. II)

Extracts:

N.B. The following are extracts from Scott's introductions to and notes on various ballads collected in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. No attempt has been made to list the many online versions of the traditional ballads themselves. For online versions of the 'imitations of the ancient ballad' inserted by Scott in the Minstrelsy, click here. For futher information on the Minstrelsy, click here.

• a) Changeling Legends from the British Isles
  
  
  • Contents: 'Scottish Changelings' -- 'Two Manx Changelings' (two extracts from 'On the Fairies of Popular Superstition', Scott's introduction to 'The Tale of Tamlane'). Source Text: Edinburgh: Ballantyne, 1833.
    
    
• b) Pandemonium
  
  
  • Contents: Note to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe's 'The Murder of Caerlaverock' (with text of the ballad)
    
    
• c) Sacred Texts
  
  
  • Contents (11 of Scott's editorial notes): 'The Fairies of Scotland' -- 'Sir Godfrey Macculloch' -- 'Water Fairies' -- 'Fairy Transportation' -- 'The Poor Man of Peatlaw' --'The Fairy Boy of Leith' -- 'The Lothian Farmer's Wife' -- 'Redemption from Fairy Land' -- 'The Scottish Brownie' -- 'The Bogle' -- 'Fatlips'. Source Text: George Douglas (ed.), Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales. New York: A.L. Burt, [1901].
    

• d) WileyGenealogy
  
  
  • Contents: Introduction to 'The Battle of Bothwell Bridge'

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4. The Poetical Works of Anna Seward

• Internet Archive (vol. I, and vol. III)

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5. 'Private Letters of King James's Reign'

• Making of America Books (Source Text: Scribner's Magazine, vol. 14, no. 6 (December 1893), pp. 735-48)

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6. Sir Tristrem

• Internet Archive (3rd Edition)

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7. Somers' Tracts

• Internet Archive (2nd Edition, vol. I, and II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII)

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8. The Works of John Dryden

• Bookrags (as above, and Dramatic Works, vol. I)
• Internet Archive (First Edition, vol. I, and vols II, III, IV, V, VI (2nd edition), VII, VIII (2nd edition), IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII)
• Project Gutenberg (vol. II, and vols. IV, V, VI, VII, & XVI, plus Dramatic Works, vol. I)

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9. The Works of Jonathan Swift

• Internet Archive (First Edition, vol. I, and vols II, III, IV, V, VI (2nd Edition), VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII (2nd Edition), XIII, XIV, XV, XVI (2nd Edition), XVII, XVIII, XIX)

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