[Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature by Margaret Ball]@TWC D-Link bookSir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature CHAPTER VI 46/377
1967) in which he says: "Kirk's Secret Commonwealth, a curious tract, of about a hundred quarto pages, on Fairy Superstitions and second sight, originally published in 1691, and of which, in 1815, Mr.Scott had caused a hundred copies to be privately printed by the Ballantynes, with additions, a circumstance, I think, not noted by Lockhart." Mr.Lang thinks the book was never printed until 1815. (See his edition, London, 1893).
This 1815 edition of 100 copies was made, he says, from a manuscript copy preserved in the Advocates' Library, for Longman & Co.
He quotes one of Scott's references to the book, but does not intimate that Scott was the editor. Memorie of the Somervilles; being a history of the baronial house of Somerville, by James, eleventh Lord Somerville.
2 vols.
Edinburgh. [Edited by Scott anonymously.] The additions by the editor consist of a short preface and abundant notes. 1816 Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk.
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