Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 1 (of 10)

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Transcriber's note:
Obvious printer's errors have been corrected; all other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been retained.
The author used group of asterisks ( ) to replace names.
IN TEN VOLUMES VOLUME I

BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge MCMI
COPYRIGHT, 1901 BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Six Hundred Copies Printed Number,

Walter Scott in 1777 From the miniature by Kay, in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
Lockhart's Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., which divides with Boswell's Life of Johnson the honor of leading all lives of English men of letters, was first published in seven volumes in 1837-1838. A second edition, with some corrections, some slight revisions, and a few additions, mostly in the form of notes, was published in 1839, and this has remained ever since the standard edition. Later, in 1848, Lockhart prepared, at the request of the publishers of that work, a condensation of his magnum opus, and took that occasion to add a few facts bearing upon the Life which had occurred since the original publication, and a few comments which it would not have been in good taste to make in the first instance. Throughout his original work, Lockhart, with all his openness of speech, yet refrained from certain personal references, the subjects of which were too recent for remark, and he concealed many names under the disguise of initials.