Printed by James Ballantyne & Co.
Scott and Lockhart began in 1823 or 1824 to prepare an edition of Shakspere.

In Jan., 1825, Constable wrote to a London bookseller: "It gives me great pleasure to tell you that the first sheet of Sir Walter Scott's Shakspeare is now in type ...

This I expect will be a first-rate property." (_Constable's Correspondence_, II, 344.) At the time of Constable's bankruptcy in 1826 there was a disagreement in regard to the ownership of the property.

Scott wrote to Lockhart, May 30, 1826, "What do you about Shakspeare?
Constable's creditors seem desirous to carry it on.

Certainly their bankruptcy breaks the contract.