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Of the three royal octavo volumes entitled The Bibliographical
Decameron, or Ten Days' Pleasant Discourse upon illuminated
Manuscripts, and subjects connected with Early Engraving,
Topography, and Bibliography (1817), Isaac D’Israeli wrote: 'The
volumes not only exceed my expectation, but even my imagination. '
Overtures were made for the re-publication of this beautifully
illustrated work in France; but they were too late. The costly
woodcuts, which had been executed for its production, had already
been purposely destroyed by Dibdin and his friends, who had used
them to feed the fire on a convivial occasion. In 1821 Dibdin
published his Bibliographical, Antiquarian, and Picturesque
Tour in France and Germany. Scott welcomed this 'splendid
work' as one of the most handsome which ever came from
the British Press. ' Dibdin's Library Companion (1824) has
been severely criticised by some, but has been more justly re-
garded by others as a work of considerable value. It was followed
in 1827 by the fourth edition of his Introduction to the Greek
and Latin Classics, and by an anonymous pamphlet entitled
Bibliophobia: “Remarks on the present languid and depressed
state of Literature and the Book Trade' (1831), an entertaining,
but, in some respects, melancholy work. His Reminiscences of
a Literary Life, 'a store-house of biographical and bibliographical
anecdote,' appeared in 1836, succeeded in 1838 by his Biblio-
graphical, Antiquarian, and Picturesque Tour in the Northern
Counties of England, a handsome work, but inferior to that on
his tour in France and Germany. Dibdin must have been well
content with the tribute paid him by Scott for the charm with
which he had invested the dry details of bibliography:
You have contrived to strew flowers over a path which, in other hands,
would have proved a very dull one; and all Bibliomanes must remember you
long, as he (sic) who first united their antiquarian details with good-humoured
raillery and cheerfulness.
The library of the duke of Sussex was catalogued in two
splendid volumes (1827—39) by Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, who,
apart from his publications on the history of medicine, pro-
duced in 1849 a Life of Lord Nelson, including upwards of six
hundred letters and documents, then published for the first
time. The keeper of the Lambeth manuscripts from 1837 to
1848 was Samuel Roffey Maitland, who published, in 1843, a
list of some of the early printed books in that library, and, in
1845, an index of the English books printed before 1600. His
historical productions are noticed elsewhere?
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[CH.
Bibliographers
Memoirs of Libraries, together with a practical hand-book
of library economy, was published in 1859 by Edward Edwards,
who subsequently wrote Lives of the Founders of the British
Museum (1870). The plan of the great reading-room of that
Museum was first formed by Antonio (afterwards Sir Anthony)
Panizzi, keeper of the printed books from 1837, and chief librarian
from 1856 to 1866. In addition to many other public services, it
was owing to Panizzi's personal influence that, in 1846, the bequest
of the Grenville library was obtained for the Museum.
Two bibliographical works of the highest importance were
produced by a London bookseller, William Thomas Lowndes:
(1) the four volumes of The Bibliographer's Manual of English
Literature, 'containing an account of rare, curious, and useful
books relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the invention
of printing, with bibliographical and critical notices, etc. ,' the
first systematic work of the kind published in England (1834);
and (2) The British Librarian, or "book-collector's guide to the
formation of a library' (parts 1–11, 1839). The Bibliographer's
Manual was enlarged, with revisions and corrections, and with
interesting prefatory notes, in 1857—8, etc. , by Henry George
Bohn, whose own magnum opus was the Guinea Catalogue of old
books (1841), filling nearly 2000 pages and describing 300,000
volumes. Among Bohn's many other undertakings was The Anti-
quarian Library of thirty-five volumes, including (apart from
historical works of earlier date) George Ellis's Specimens of
Early English Metrical Romances, Thomas Keightley's Fairy
Mythology, Mallet's Northern Antiquities and Benjamin Thorpe’s
Yule-tide Stories. Bohn's Guinea Catalogue, vast as it was, was
surpassed in size, though not in quality or character, by the seven
volumes of Bernard Quaritch's General Catalogue of Old Books
and MSS (1887–9; index, 1892).
A bibliographical and critical account of the rarest books in
the English language was supplied in the Notes on rare English
Books, published in 1865 by John Payne Collier, who also printed
Extracts from the Registers of the Stationers' Company for
1555—70, and edited The Roxburghe Ballads, as well as several
works for the Camden, Percy and Shakespeare societies, and the
two volumes entitled Shakespeare's Library (1843). In 1849 he
published a large number of emendations of the text of Shake-
speare from the 'Perkins folio,' which he presented to the duke of
Devonshire, after whose death it was deposited in the British
Museum in 1859, with the result that the marginal corrections
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were proved to be modern fabrications. A catalogue of the MSS
of the Chetham library, in Manchester, was produced in 1841—2
by James Orchard Halliwell(-Phillipps), who edited many works for
the Camden, Percy and Shakespeare societies, and produced a
magnificent edition of Shakespeare in twenty folio volumes, and
facsimiles of the Shakespeare quartos. He also wrote several
important works on the life of the poet, besides arranging and
describing the archives of Stratford-on-Avon, and compiling A
Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, and A Dictionary
of Old English Plays.
Richard Copley Christie bequeathed to the university of
Manchester a library rich in the literature of the revival of
learning. Walter Arthur Copinger, long Christie's colleague at
Manchester and, like him, a barrister in practice there, founded,
in 1892, the London Bibliographical society, printed in the same year
his Incunabula Biblica and published in 1895—8 his important
supplement to Hain's Repertorium Bibliographicum, in which
6832 works printed in the fifteenth century were added to the 16,311
registered by Hain. Three thousand incunabula (or early printed
books) in the Bodleian were catalogued in 1891–3 by Robert
Proctor, who included notes upon these in his Index of Early
Printed Books in the British Museum (1898). He also prepared
for the Bibliographical society in 1900 an illustrated monograph
entitled The Printing of Greek in the Fifteenth Century. This
able bibliographer met with a mysterious end in the Tyrol in 1903,
and his Bibliographical Essays, which everywhere reveal the wide
knowledge of an expert, were collected two years later. A useful
Register of National Bibliography was produced in two volumes
in 1905 by William Prideaux Courtney.
A remarkable knowledge of bibliography was possessed by
Henry Bradshaw, librarian of the Cambridge university library
from 1867 to 1886. His Memoranda,' which are of special
'
interest as indicating the processes by which advances in know-
ledge are made, are included in the Collected Papers published in
1889. A society for publishing rare liturgical tracts was founded
in his memory in the following year. The book rarities in the
university of Cambridge were reviewed with enthusiasm in 1829
by Charles Henry Hartshorne, who gives a complete list of Capell’s
Shakespeariana in the library of Trinity college. The fifteenth
century printed books, and the English books printed before
1601, in Trinity college library, at Cambridge, were catalogued,
i Cf. ante, p. 333.
E. L. XII.
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Bibliographers
[ch.
in 1876 and 1885, by the librarian, Robert Sinker, who also wrote
a popular monograph on the library. The early English printed
books in the university library (1475 to 1640), and the MSS in
the college libraries, have likewise been catalogued.
Among the bibliographers specially associated with Scotland,
Sir Walter Scott was undoubtedly a sound bibliographer. It was
on a plan of his own that his library was catalogued by his
secretary; and (as already observed) he was president of the
Bannatyne club from its foundation to the day of his death? . But
the first great bibliographer of Scotland was Robert Watt, of
Glasgow, who published A Catalogue of Medical Books during
his lifetime (in 1812), and left behind him the materials for his
great Bibliotheca Britannica, or a general Index to British and
Foreign Literature, published in four volumes at Edinburgh in
1824, the first two containing the alphabetical list of authors
(with their works), and the third and fourth an alphabetical
classification of subjects.
'Dr Watt,' writes Isaac D’Israeli, 'may serve as a mortifying example of
the length of labour and the brevity of life. To this gigantic work the patient
zeal of the writer had devoted twenty years; he had just arrived at the point
of publication when death folded down his last page; the son who, during the
last four years, had toiled under the direction of his father, was chosen to
occupy his place. The work was in the progress of publication, when the son
also died; and strangers now reap the fruits of their combined labours. '2
The work has been justly described as “a remarkable perform-
ance, despite of all its imperfections, and one in which Watt's
name will live for centuries to come. '
A catalogue of the law books in the Advocates' library,
Edinburgh, was produced in 1831 by David Irving, author of
Memoirs of. . . George Buchanan and Lives of Scotish Poets, and
of The History of Scotish Poetry. The bibliographical erudition
of Sir William Hamilton, professor of logic and metaphysics
in Edinburgh, is clearly shown in the notes to his published
works, such as Discussions on Philosophy and Literature of
1852—3, and his posthumous Lectures on Logic and Metaphysics.
Augustus de Morgan held that Hamilton was not a bibliographer:
'he knew nothing but the insides of books ’; but he suggested that
a list of the books quoted in Hamilton's lectures on logic would
form a good bibliography of the subject". The American editor of
his Philosophy regarded ‘his erudition, both in its extent and in
3
1
1 Ante, p. 358.
? Literary Miscellanies, p. 355, ed. 1867.
3 Enc. Brit. vol. xxi, ed. 1860, p. 778.
4 Notes and Queries, 1864, p. 102 (quoted in David Murray's Bibliography, p. 53).
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its exactness,' as 'perfectly provoking’l; and a fellow-countryman,
with all the instincts of a bibliographer, has more aptly said
of him:
Summing up the thousands upon thousands of volumes upon all matters of
human study and in many languages, which he has passed through his hands,
you think he has merely dipped into them or skimmed them, or in some other
shape put them to superficial use. You are wrong; he has found his way at
once to the very heart of the living matter of each one; between it and him
there are henceforth no secrets 2.
The Book-Hunter, a discursive volume describing the delights
of book-collecting, was written by John Hill Burton, the publica-
tion of whose History of Scotland led to his appointment as
historiographer royal for that country. A Scotsman who lived
long in England, Andrew Lang, wrote a delightful volume, The
Library (1881), besides discoursing on 'Elzevirs' and on ‘Biblio-
mania in France' in his Books and Bookmen (1887).
A Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature
of Great Britain was published in 1882–8 by Samuel Halkett,
keeper of the Advocates' library (of which he planned the
catalogue), and John Laing, librarian of the New college, Edin-
burgh, author of the excellent catalogue of its library. The
religious history of the sixteenth century was the special
province of Thomas Graves Law, keeper of the Signet library,
Edinburgh, from 1876 to 1904, whose Collected Essays appeared
in the latter years. Finally, a new catalogue of the Glasgow
university library (with an excellent subject-index) has been
prepared by William Purdie Dickson, honorary curator of the
library, and papers on the bibliography of chemistry and tech-
nology have been written by John Ferguson, of Glasgow, author
of Bibliotheca Chemica (1906), Witchcraft Literature of Scotland,
and Some Aspects of Bibliography with a list of special
bibliographies in the appendix (1907)*.
)
1 Wight, O. W. , transl. of Cousin's History of Modern Philosophy, vol. II, p. 335,
1854. Cf. De Quincey's Essays, vol. v, pp. 314 f. , ed. Masson.
2 Burton, John Hill, The Book-Hunter, pp. 77 f. , ed. 1909.
s As to John Hill Burton, Andrew Lang and T. G. Law, see a later volume of this
History.
* See, also, the bibliography of the present chapter.
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CHAPTER I
SIR WALTER SCOTT
I. MANUSCRIPTS
Scott's Journal and much of his correspondence are preserved privately
at Abbotsford, as are also the collections of ballad versions which he utilised
for Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. In the Abbotsford library, which
by his will is preserved intact as he left it, and is accessible for con-
sultation on certain conditions, are a number of miscellaneous MSS and
collections, including various translations of German dramas which he did
not publish, and also his notes when a student at the class of Scots law.
The original MSS of most of Scott's poems and novels are in existence, but
the majority are now in the hands of private collectors. Of several MSS
of the novels at one time in the possession of Ruskin, only that of The
Fortunes of Nigel is now at Brantwood. In the British Museum is the
MS of the most of Kenilworth; various letters of Scott to George Thomson,
with verses for his Scottish Airs; the proofsheets of Woodstock with the
author's corrections and additions; eighteen letters to James Ballantyne
about the work, and Ballantyne's criticisms; a copy of The Life of Napoleon
with MS corrections and notes by Scott; and a portion of an edition of
Swift's Works used by Scott, with MS notes by him. The MSS of Marmion
and Waverley are preserved in the Advocates' library, Edinburgh. Portions
of Kenilworth and The Legend of Montrose, original correspondence and
verses belonging to Scott and various letters from him, are included in the
Laing collection in the university of Edinburgh. The publishing firm of
A. & C. Black, London, possesses Scott's annotated edition of the Waverley
novels, in 44 volumes, full of textual corrections by him; and bound up
in vol. I are the MSS of the introductions, etc. published in the first
collected edition.
II. POETRY
A. Collected Editions
The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, with the Notes by the Author.
12 vols. Edinburgh, 1820.
Poetical Works. 7 vols. Paris, 1821 and 1827.
11 vols. Edinburgh, 1830.
Ed. Lockhart, J. L. , with illustrations on steel from drawings by Turner,
J. M. W. Edinburgh, 1833-4 and 1848.
Ed. , with memoir and critical dissertation, by Gilfillan, G. 3 vols. Edin-
burgh, 1857.
The Globe edition, with a biographical and critical memoir by Palgrave,
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Sir Walter Scott
a
Poetical Works. With a critical memoir by Rossetti, W. M. , and illustrations
by Seccombe, T. 1870.
With prefatory notice, biographical and critical, by Sharp, W. 2 vols.
1885-6.
Ed. Minto, W. 2 vols. 1891-2.
Oxford complete edn. Ed. Robertson, J. L. 1904.
Ed. Lang, A. 1905.
B. Separate Works
The Chase and William and Helen: two ballads from the German of Gott-
fried A. Bürger. [Anonymous. ] Edinburgh and London, 1796.
Apology for Tales of Terror. Kelso, 1799. [Only about 12 copies printed.
Includes his Bürger translations, and a few other ballads afterwards
included in M. G. Lewis's Tales of Wonder, 1801. ]
The Eve of St John: a Border Ballad. Kelso, 1800.
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Vols. 1 and 11. Kelso, 1802. Vol. III.
London and Edinburgh, 1803. (Includes original ballads by Scott and
others. ] 3rd and more complete edn. 1803. Various subsequent edns with
changes and additional notes. Posthumous edn with additional notes by
Lockhart, J. G. 1833. New edn with additional notes and various readings
by Henderson, T. F. 4 vols. Edinburgh and New York, 1902.
Re-
arranged edn with introduction by Noyes, A. , in one vol. Edinburgh,
1908.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel. 1805. 6th edn with notes. 1807. 8th edn
with Ballads and Lyrical Pieces. Illustrated. 1808.
Ballads and Lyrical Pieces. 1806.
Marmion: a Tale of Flodden Field. 1808.
The Lady of the Lake; a poem. Edinburgh, 1810.
The Vision of Don Roderick. Edinburgh, 1811.
Glenfinlas and other Ballads, with the Vision of Don Roderick. Edinburgh,
1812.
Rokeby, a Poem. Edinburgh, 1813.
The Bridal of Triermain; or the Vale of St John. Edinburgh, 1813.
The Field of Waterloo; a Poem. Edinburgh, 1815.
The Lord of the Isles; a Poem in six cantos. 1815.
The Vision of Don Roderick, The Field of Waterloo and other poems. Edin-
burgh, 1815.
The Ettricke Garland, being two excellent new songs (one by Scott and the
other by Hogg, J. ). Edinburgh, 1815.
Various songs in Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice
by Thomson, George, 6 vols. , 1793-1811; and in Albyn's Anthology, ed.
Campbell, A. , 2 vols. , Edinburgh, 1816 and 1818.
Harold the Dauntless; a Poem in six cantos. Edinburgh, 1817.
Ballad of the Noble Moringer. In The Edinburgh Annual Register. 1817.
The Bridal of Triermain and Harold the Dauntless. Edinburgh, 1818.
Miscellaneous Poems. Edinburgh, 1820.
The Poetry contained in the Novels, Tales and Romances of the Author of
Waverley. Edinburgh, 1822.
Halidon Hill; a Metrical Romance in two acts. 1822.
Macduff's Cross; a Dramatic Sketch. First published in Joanna Baillie's
Collection of Poetical Miscellanies. 1822. Republished with the Doom
of Devorgoil, Halidon Hill and Auchindrane, or the Ayrshire Tragedy.
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Bibliography
III. NOVELS
A. Collected Editions
Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley. 16 vols. Edinburgh, 1821.
12 vols. Edinburgh, 1823.
Historical Romances of the Author of Waverley. 8 vols. Edinburgh,
1822. 6 vols. Edinburgh, 1824.
Novels and Romances of the Author of Waverley. 9 vols. Edinburgh, 1824.
7 vols. Edinburgh, 1825.
Tales and Romances of the Author of Waverley. Illustrated edn with
introductions and notes. 20 vols. Edinburgh, 1827–33. Another edn,
16 vols. Edinburgh, 1828–33.
The Waverley Novels. Author's Favourite edn [illustrated with 96 steel
plates). 48 vols. Edinburgh, 1830–4.
Cabinet edn. 25 vols. Edinburgh, 1841-3.
Abbotsford edn. [With many steel and wood engravings. ] 12 vols.
Edinburgh, 1842-7.
Library edn. 25 vols. 1852-3.
Illustrated Roxburghe edn. 48 vols. Edinburgh, 1859-61.
Centenary edn. Edinburgh, 1870-1.
Édition de Luxe. 25 vols. 1882-98.
Dryburgh edn. 25 vols. 1890-1900.
Border Illustrated edn. [With introductory essays and notes by Lang, A. ]
48 vols. 1892-4, and later reprints.
Oxford edn. 25 vols. Oxford, 1912.
B. Separate Novels
Waverley, or 'Tis Sixty Years Since. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1814.
Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer. By the Author of Waverley. 3 vols.
Edinburgh, 1815.
The Antiquary. By the Author of Waverley, and Guy Mannering. 3 rols.
Edinburgh, 1816.
Tales of My Landlord. Collected and arranged by Jedidiah Cleishbotham.
[The Black Dwarf and Old Mortality. ) 4 vols. Edinburgh, 1816.
Tales of My Landlord. Second series (The Heart of Midlothian). 4 vols.
Edinburgh, 1818.
Rob Roy. By the Author of Waverley. Edinburgh, 1818.
Tales of My Landlord. Third series [The Bride of Lammermoor and The
Legend of Montrose]. 4 vols. Edinburgh, 1819.
Ivanhoe. A Romance. By the Author of Waverley. 3 vols. Edinburgh,
1820.
The Monastery. A Romance. By the Author of Waverley, 3 vols. Edin-
burgh, 1820.
The Abbot. Ry the Author of Waverley. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1820.
Kenilworth. A Romance. By the Author of Waverley. 3 vols. Edinburgh,
1821.
The Pirate. By the Author of Waverley. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1822.
The Fortunes of Nigel. By the Author of Waverley. 4 vols. Edinburgh,
1822.
Peveril of the Peak. By the Author of Waverley. 4 vols. Edinburgh, 1822.
Quentin Durward. By the Author of Waverley. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1823.
St Ronan's Well. By the Author of Waverley. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1824.
Redgauntlet: a tale of the eighteenth century. By the Author of Waverley.
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Tales of the Crusades. (Vols. I and 11, The Betrothed; vols. III and iv, The
Talisman. ] Edinburgh, 1825.
Woodstock; or the Cavalier. A tale of the year sixteen hundred and fifty-
one. By the Author of Waverley. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1826.
Chronicles of the Canongate (The Highland Widow; The Two Drovers;
and The Surgeon's Daughter. With an introduction by Scott, acknow-
ledging the authorship of the Waverley novels). 2 vols. Edinburgh,
1827.
Chronicles of the Canongate. Second series [St Valentine's Day; or The
Fair Maid of Perth). 3 vols.