Download or read book The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by Walter Scott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Vol. 1 The popularity of The Mimtrelsy of the Scottish Border - of which the first edition appeared about a century ago, and the finally corrected edition, with additional notes by Lockhart, some thirty years later - was almost as immediate and general as that of its great precursor, Bishop Percy's Reliques ofancient Poetry, first published in 1765. Its influence in stimulating the industry of ballad collectors was also remarkable, though it can hardly be maintained that in this respect it surpassed the Reliques, if it be borne in mind that but for the Reliques, Scott might never have prepared the illinatrelay. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.