Male : Novelist, Poet & Biographer. Associated with the Borders. Married Charlotte Charpentier in 1797. In 1826 bankrupt as a result of his publishing partner and for sinking money into the Ballantyne's printing business (a total of £130.000). He worked for the rest of his life to clear his debts. Lived at Abbotsford from 1812

Nationality : Scottish Place of Birth : Edinburgh

Date of Birth : 1771 Date of Death : 1832 Age : 61

Pseudonyms : Jedediah Cleishbotham. Laurence Templeton

Other Work : Founder of the Quarterly Review in 1809. Sheriff of Selkirkshire 1799

Education : Kelso GS, Edinburgh HS & University

1788-1800
The Chase and William and Helen : Two Ballads from the German of Gottfried Augustus Burger (1796)
Rules and Regulations of the Royal Edinburgh Light Dragoons (1798 Edinburgh) - Anon
Goetz of Berlichingen, with The Iron Hand by Goethe (1799)
(Ed) An Apology for Tales of Terror (1799)
The Eve of Saint John : A Border Ballad (1800)

1801-1805
(Ed) Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802 for Cadell & Davies, Kelso) - 2 vols
(Ed) Sir Tristram : A Metrical Romance by Thomas of Ercildoune (1804 Constable)
(Ed) Original Memoirs Written during the Great Civil War by Sir H Slingsby & Capt Hodgson (1804)
The Lay of the Last Minstrel : A Poem (1805 for Longman)

1806-1810
Ballads and Lyrical Pieces (1806 Ballantyne)
(Ed) The Works of John Dryden (1808) - 18 vols
Illustrations of Walter Scott's Lay of the Last minstrel, consisting of 12 Views on the Rivers
Bothwick, Ettrick, Yarrow, Tiviot, and Tweed (1808 London)
(Ed) The Life of John Dryden (1808)
Marmion : A Tale of Flodden Field (1808 Ballantyne for Constable) - R Westall
[Constable reputedly paid Scott 1000 guineas for this work]
(Ed) Memoirs of Captain George Carleton (1808)
(Ed) Queenhoo-Hall : A Romance and Ancient Times - A Drama by Joseph Strutt (1808) - 4 vols
(Ed) Memoirs of Robert Cary, Earl of Monmouth, and Fragmenta Regalia by Sir Robert Naunton
(1808)
(Ed) A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts (1809-15) - 13 vols
The Lady of the Lake - Poem (1810 Ballantyne, Edinburgh)
(Ed) English Minstrelsy : Being a Collection of Fugitive Poetry (1810) - 2 vols
Illustrations of Walter Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel : consisting of 12 Views (1810 London)
(Ed) The Poetical Works of Anna Seward (1810) - 3 vols

1811-1815
(Ed) Memoirs of Count Grammont by Anthony Hamilton (1811) - 2 vols
(Ed) The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (1811)
(Ed) Secret History of the Court of King James the First (1811) - 2 vols
The Vision of Don Roderick : A Poem (1811 James Ballantyne, Edinburgh)
Rokeby : A Poem (1813 Ballantyne & Constable, Edinburgh & London)
[Sold 10.000 copies in 3 months]
The Bridal of Triermain, or the Vale of St John (1813 Ballantyne, Edinburgh)
Waverley, or 'Tis Sixty Years Since (1814 Ballantyne for Constable, Edinburgh) - 1st novel. Anon. 3 vols
(Ed) The Works of Jonathan Swift (1814) - 19 vols
(Ed) The Letting of Humours Blood in the Head Vaine by S Rowlands (1814)
The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland (1814-17 Longman) - 2 vols
Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer (1815 Ballantyne) - 3 vols
The Lord of the Isles : A Poem (1815 Constable, Edinburgh & Longman, London)
(Ed) Memorie of the Somervilles (1815) - 2 vols
The Field of Waterloo : A Poem (1815 Ballantyne for Constable, Edinburgh)
The Ettrick Garland : Being Two Excellent New Songs (1815) - with James Hogg

1816-1818
The Antiquary (1816 Ballantyne for Constable, Edinburgh) - 3 vols. Anon
The Black Dwarf, Old Mortality (1816)
Paul's Letters to His Kinsfolk (1816 Constable, Edinburgh) (1816 Moses Thomas, Phila)
Tales of My Landlord : First Series - The Black Dwarf & Old Mortality
(1816 Blackwood & John Murray) - 4 vols. As Jedediah Cleishbotham
Tales of My Landlord : First Series - The Black Dwarf & Old Mortality
(1817 J Maxwell for M Thomas, Phila) - 4 vols in 2
Harold the Dauntless : A Poem (1817 Constable)
Rob Roy (1818 Ballantyne for Constable, Edinburgh) - 3 vols. Anon
[Supposedly based on the life of Robert Campbell or Macgregor (1671-1734). It was
filmed in 1953 as "Rob Roy the Highland Rogue" and in 1995 as "Rob Roy"]
Tales of My Landlord : Second Series - The Heart of Midlothian
(1818 Constable, Edinburgh) - 4 vols. As Jedediah Cleishbotham

1819-1820
The Visionary (1819)
Tales of My Landlord : Third Series - Bride of Lammermoor - A Legend of Montrose
(1819 Constable) - 4 vols. As Jedediah Cleishbotham
Ivanhoe : A Romance (1820 Constable) - 3 vols. As Laurence Templeton
Offered in 1999 for £280
[Filmed in 1952]
The Abbot (1820 Constable, Edinburgh) - 3 vols. Anon
(Ed) Trivial Poems and Triolets by Patrick Carey (1820)
(Ed) Memorials of the Haliburtons (1820)
The Monastery : A Romance (1820 for Longman) - 3 vols. Anon

1821-1823
Kenilworth : A Romance (1821 Constable) - 3 vols. Anon
(Ed) Northern Memoirs Writ in the Year 1658 by Richard Franck (1821)
Lives of the Novelists (1821-4 Ballantyne) - 4 vols
The Fortunes of Nigel (1822 Constable, Edinburgh) - 3 vols
Peveril of the Peak (1822 Constable, Edinburgh) - 3 vols. Anon
The Pirate (1822 Constable, Edinburgh) - 3 vols. Anon
(Ed) Chronological Notes of Scottish Affairs from the Diary of Lord Fountainhall (1822)
(Ed) Military Memoirs of the Great Civil War by John Gwynne (1822)
Historical Romances of the Author of Waverley (1822 Constable) - 6 vols
Halidon Hill : A Dramatic Sketch from Scottish History (1822 Constable) - 2 vols
(1822 Carey & Lea, Phila)
Quentin Durward (1823 Constable, Edinburgh) - 3 vols
[Filmed in 1955]
Poetical Works (1823 Constable) - 10 vols
The Lady of the Lake : A Poem in Six Cantos (1823 Ebenezer K Allen, Boston)

1824-1825
St Ronan's Well (1824 Constable, Edinburgh) - 3 vols
Redgauntlet : A Tale of the 18thC (1824 Constable, Edinburgh) - 3 vols. Anon
(Ed) Lays of the Lindsays (1824)
The Talisman (1825)
Tales of the Crusaders : The Betrothed & The Talisman
(1825 Constable) - 4 vols (1825 Carey & Lea, Phila - 4 vols in 2)
(Ed) Auld Robin Gray : A Ballad by Lady Anne Barnard (1825)

1826-1828
Memoirs of John Dryden (1826 Galignani, Paris) - 2 vols
Provincial Antiquities and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland (1826 London) - 2 vols
Woodstock, or The Cavalier (1826 Constable, Edinburgh) - 3 vols.
(1826 Carey & Lea - 2 vols) Anon
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte (1827 Edinburgh) - 9 vols (1827 Carey & Lea, Phila - 3 vols)
(C1830 Longman. 2nd Ed. £4.14/6) - 9 vols
[In 1827 Robert Cadell, Constable's son-in-law, bought the copyright of the Waverley novels,
and by the time of his death in 1849 he had sold 78,270 complete sets of the series]
Chronicles of the Canongate : First Series (1827 Cadell, Edinburgh) - 2 vols. Anon
(Ed) The Bannatyne Miscellany (1827) - with D Laing
(Ed) Memoirs of the Marchioness de la Rochejaquelein (1827)
Tales of a Grandfather : Being Stories Taken from Scottish History (1827-9) - 9 vols
Miscellaneous Prose Works (1827) - 6 vols
Chronicles of the Canongate : Second Series (1828 Edinburgh) - 3 vols. Anon
Religious Discourses, By a Layman (1828 Colburn)

1829-1830
Anne of Geirstein, or the Maiden of the Mist (1829 Cadell, Edinburgh) - 3 vols. Anon
The Waverley Novels : Magnum Opus Edition (1829-33 Robert Cadell, Edinburgh) - 48 vols
Offered in 1999 for £285
The History of Scotland (1829-30) - 2 vols
(Ed) Proceedings in the Court-Martial Held upon John Master of Sinclair 1708 (1829)
(Ed) Memorials of George Bannatyne 1545-1608 (1829)
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft addressed to J G Lockhart Esq (1830 Murray)
The Doom of Devorgoil, a Melo-Drama / Auchindrane, or The Ayrshire Tragedy (1830 Cadell)
Tales of a Grandfather : Being Stories Taken from the History of France (1830) - 3 vols

1831-1850
(Ed) Trial of Duncan Terig and Alexander Bane Macdonald 1754 (1831)
Tales of My Landlord : 4th and Last Series - Count Robert of Paris & Castle Dangerous
(1832 for R Cadell, Edinburgh) - 4 vols. As Jedediah Cleishbotham
Letters Addressed to Rev R Polwhele, D Gilbert, F Douce (1832)
Landscape Illustrations of the Waverley Novels with descriptions of the Views
(1832 Charles Tilt, London) - 2 vols
The Poetical Works (1833-4 Cadell, Edinburgh) - 12 vols. Edited by J G Lockhart
The Miscellaneous Prose Works (1834-6 Cadell) - 28 vols. Edited by J G Lockhart
[Two further vols appeared in 1871]
The Waverley Novels : Abbotsford Edition (1842 Edinburgh) - 12 vols
The Provincial Antiquities of Scotland & Picturesque Scenery of Scotland
(1847 Edinburgh) - 2 vols
Letters Between James Ellis & Scott (1850)

1851-1900
The Lady of the Lake (1857 A & C Black) - Birket Foster & John Gilbert
(Ed) Memoirs of the Insurrection in Scotland in 1715 by John, Master of Sinclair (1858)
The Poetical Works, with a Memoir (1866 Little Brown, Boston) - 9 vols. 100
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft addressed to J G Lockhart Esq
(1868 Wm Tegg) - George Cruikshank
The Waverley Novels : Centenary Edition (1871 Black, London) - 25 vols
The Poetical Works (Notes by J G Lockhart) (1874 Black, Edinburgh)
- Engravings after J M W Turner
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott : from the Original MS at Abbotsford
(1890 Harper, NY) (1890 D Douglas) - 2 vols. Edited by D Douglas
Collected Works : Dryburgh Edition (1892-4 Black) - 25 vols. 300 sets
Collected Works : Border Edition (1892-4 Nimmo) - 48 vols
Collected Works : Border Edition (1892-4 Nimmo) - 48 vols. Ltd Ed 365 sets on hand made paper
Familiar Letters (1894 David Douglas, Edinburgh) - 2 vols. edited by D Douglas

1901-1940
Collected Works : Bouverie Edition (1901 Daily News) - 25 vols
The Letters of Sir Walter Scott & Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe to Robert Chambers 1821-45
(1904 Chambers)
Collected Works (1906 Dent Everyman Library) - 25 vols
(Ed) Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1908) - Edited by Alfred Noyes
Quentin Durward (1923 Scribner) - C Bosseron Chambers
The Private Letter-Books (1930) - Edited by W Partington
Sir Walter's Postbag : More Stories and Sidelights from ther Collection in the Brotherton Library
(1932) - Edited W Partington
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1932 Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh) - 4 vols
New Love Poems (1932) - Edited by Davidson Cook
The Letters 1787-1832 (Edited by H J C Grierson) (1932-7 Constable, London) - 12 vols
Some Unpublished Letters from the Collection in the Brotherton Library (1932 Oxford)
- Edited by J A Symington
The Correspondence of Scott and Charles Robert Maturin (1937) - Edited by Ratchford & McCarthy
Ivanhoe (1940 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 2 vols. 1500 signed by Allen Lewis

After 1941
The Journal 1827-8 (Edited by J G Tait) (1941 Edinburgh)
Private Letters of the 17thC (1948) - Edited by D Grant
Ivanhoe (1951 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 2 vols. 1500 signed by Edward A Wilson
Waverley (1961 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Robert Ball
Kenilworth (1966 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Clarke Hutton
The Talisman (1968 Ltd Eds Club, Ipswich) - 1500 signed by Federico Castellon
Reliquiae Trotcosienses (2004 Edinburgh UP £30)
[This guide to Abbotsford and its various collections was originally suppressed
by Scott's literary executor]

READING
1834-1880
George Allan : Life of Sir Walter Scott (1834 Thomas Ireland Jnr, Edinburgh)
John Gibson Lockhart : Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott (1837-8 Cadell, Edinburgh) - 7 vols
(1839 Edinburgh. 2nd Ed) - 12 vols
The Land of Scott, or Tourists' Guide to Abbotsford, the Country of the Tweed
and its Tributaries, and St Mary's Loch (1858 London)
Abbotsbury and Scenery of the Tweed (1859 London)
John Gibson : Reminiscences of Sir Walter Scott (1871 A & C Black, Edinburgh)
George Robert Gleig : The Life of Sir Walter Scott - reprinted from the Quarterly Review
(1871 A & C Black)

1881-1900
James Wood : The Life of Sir Walter Scott Bart - A Sketch
(1886 Ballantyne Hanson, Edinburgh)
Henry Grey : A Key to the Waverley Novels in Chronological Sequence (1899 Swan Sonnenschein)

1901-1950
Margaret Ball : Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature (1907 Columbia UP)
Donald Carswell : Sir Walter Scott - A Four-Part Study in Biography (1930 London)
Greville Worthington : A Bibliography of the Waverley Novels (1931 Constable) - 500
John Buchan : Sir Walter Scott (1932 Cassell)
Lord David Cecil : Sir Walter scott (1933 Constable)
Herbert Grierson : Sir Walter scott - A New Life (1938)
James Clarkson Corson : A Bibliography of Sir Walter Scott 1797-1940
(1943 Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh)
Una Pope-Hennessy : Sir Walter Scott (1948)

After 1951
Hesketh Pearson : Walter Scott - His Life and Personality (1955 Methuen 21/-)
Ian Jack : Sir Walter Scott (1958)
C O Parsons : Witchcraft and Demonology in Scott's Fiction (1964)
T Crawford : Sir Walter Scott (1965)
F R Hart : Sir Walter Scott's Novels (1966)
Eric Quayle : The Ruin of Sir Walter Scott (1968)
Carola Oman : The Wizard of the North - The Life of Sir Walter Scott (1973)
Robin Mayhead : Sir Walter Scott (1973)
John Sutherland : The Life of Walter Scott (1995 Blackwell £19.99)