Scott’s Authorship and Book Culture

Reviewing an anonymous collection of ballads entitledMinstrelsy of the Scottish Borderin 1803, theMonthly Reviewobserved that its Dedication was signed by one Walter Scott. ‘We have been informed that this gentleman belongs to the Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh and is Deputy Sheriff of the county...

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Published inThe Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott p. 9
Main Author Ina Ferris
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Edinburgh University Press 25.09.2012
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Summary:Reviewing an anonymous collection of ballads entitledMinstrelsy of the Scottish Borderin 1803, theMonthly Reviewobserved that its Dedication was signed by one Walter Scott. ‘We have been informed that this gentleman belongs to the Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh and is Deputy Sheriff of the county of Selkirk’, the reviewer reports, evidently regarding the volumes produced by this provincial gentleman as what we would now call a vanity publication. Thus he stresses that the editor has encased negligible local content (‘rude lays of his marauding ancestors’) in a pretentious production featuring ‘a handsome frontispiece, fine cream-coloured paper,
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