A Bibliography of the Walter Scott Publishing House by John R. Turner Department of Information and Library Studies University of Wales, Aberystwyth Contents Introduction 1 Bibliography Books and Pamphlets 8 Periodicals 413 Books in Series 414 Remainders 459 Agency 459 Titles Published but Not Seen 460 Titles Announced but Not Published 463 Index of Editors, Translators and Contributors 466 Index of Authors 469 Index of Titles 478 Introduction The following bibliography lists the total output of Walter Scott's publishing department. An attempt has been made to include all titles with a Walter Scott imprint in either separate publications, joint publications, or works published on behalf of some-one else (usually Vanity' publishing for the author). There were some significant moves in the company’s history which can be used to date publications. For example, the London publishing office moved from 14 Paternoster Square to 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, in July 1885 and moved again in October 1894 to 1 Paternoster Buildings (which appeared on title-page imprints as Paternoster Square). The firm became a limited company in 1892 changing its title to Walter Scott Limited, and finally changed its title to the Walter Scott Publishing Co Ltd in 1901. These and other changes are summarised in Table 1. The entries are arranged in chronological order by year and then alphabetically by author within each year. Anonymous works, along with anthologies and similar compilations without an obvious author, appear in the same alphabetical sequence under their titles. Each entry is given a number followed by a heading line consisting of the author's name (if known), the short title, and the date of publication: 635 ARNOLD, Matthew Strayed Reveller [1896] A large number of Scott’s books were issued without any indication of the date of publication. Dates have been assigned on the basis of the advertising for a particular book together with the form of the imprint and printer's colophon (see Table 1) or other internal evidence. Conjectural dates appear in brackets. The heading line is followed by a quasi-facsimile transcription of the title-page: T he I D evils W hisper. I BY I REGINALD BARNETT, I Author of "Police Sergeant C 21." I [rule] I LONDON: I WALTER SCOTT, 24 WARWICK LANE, I PATERNOSTER ROW. The title-page transcription is followed by a statement of the pagination. Unnumbered pages at the beginning of a book are given in brackets. The first numbered page is then noted followed by the final page of the preliminaries but without distinguishing any other unnumbered pages in this sequence. Similarly, the first page of the text, in brackets if unnumbered, is followed by the final page of text without noting intervening unnumbered pages. If either the preliminaries or the text ends on a recto followed by a blank verso, the verso is regarded as the final page. Unnumbered advertisements printed on leaves conjugate with text are noted in brackets after the text sequence. Any advertisements which have been added in separate gatherings or leaves are ignored. Eg: Pagination: [i-v] vi - xxviii [1] - 276, ads [277-284] The pagination is followed by a transcription of the printer’s colophon with a note of the page number (in brackets if unnumbered) on which the colophon is found: Colophon: p [288] Printed by Walter Scan, Felling, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 2 If a title was included in one or more of Scott's series of books the names of the series are then listed. Sometimes, but not always, Scott added numbers to series titles. A title did not necessarily keep the same number in subsequent Scott listings. Scott's numbering is provided: Series: Brotherhood, Cambridge, Emerald, Million 52, Oxford 27 and 39. The characteristic physical features of each series are described after the main bibliography (pp xx-xxx). If a title was not included in a series the binding is described briefly: Binding: Blue cloth. Top edge gilt Black eps. The next line in an entry is a statement of Scott’s advertising for that title in the Bookseller, Publishers' Circular and Reference Catalogue of Current Literature (London: Joseph Whittaker, 1875-1932): Ads: 1st Bksl 9 Jan 1891, p 26; last Refcat 1902. The word 'advertising' has been used to mean either a display advertisement by Scott or an announcement of the title by the Bookseller or Publishers’ Circular. The first and last advertisements are noted. The date of the first advertisement cannot be taken as being equivalent to the date of publication but in most cases the two dates seem to have been close together. Thus, the advertising dates give an indication of how long the title remained in print. If a definite publication date is known this appears at the end of the advertising statement following the abbreviation 'pubd': Ads: 1st Bksl 9 Jan 1891, p 26; last Refcat 1902; pubd 25 Jan 1891. 3 The advertising statement is followed by selected locations for the title. If a particular copy has not been examined by the compiler, the location is followed by the letters NS (= not seen). Photocopies of title-pages and colophons have been obtained for all NS copies. For a title in more than one series each copy which has been examined is assigned to its series. Where possible National Union Catalog library symbols have been used: Locations: Uk, UkCU (Kenilworth); NLW (Brotherhood); ViU (NS). which indicates that three copies have been examined, two of which (in the British Library and Cambridge University Library) belong to the Kenilworth Series, and the other (in the National Library of Wales) belongs to the Brotherhood Series; the copy in Virginia University Library has not been examined by the compiler. Notes are occasionally added at the end of an entry, usually to amplify bibliographical points or to mention previous or later editions. The original Tyne Publishing Company had come into being by buying out an earlier Newcastle publisher, Adam and Company. Some titles from the Adam or Tyne Publishing lists became Scott publications, and these titles are mentioned in the notes. Variant copies and later printings are described after the main entry. The variants are listed in chronological order, sharing the serial number with the main entry but being distinguished by a letter of the alphabet. Thus it should be remembered that the entries under a given year may not represent Scott's output for that year since a reprint which appeared, for example, in 1910, of a title first published in 1886, will be listed with the 1886 entry: 4 210 (a) ANDERSEN, Lucy Copenhagen and its Environs 1888 [main entry] (b) ANDERSEN, Lucy Copenhagen and its Environs 1889 as (a) except ... ITALY." / THIRD EDITION. I LONDON: I WALTER SCOTT, 24 WARWICK LANE, I PATERNOSTER ROW. 11889. In addition to books and pamphlets, Scott published four periodicals and these are listed at the end of the main bibliography (nos 1071-1074). After the main bibliography there are separate listings of titles in series including a description of the distinguishing features of each series. In addition there are indexes of authors, titles, and of editors, translators, and contributors. Based on Scott's advertising in the Bookseller, Publishers' Circular, and the Reference Catalogue of Current Literature, two further lists are included: those titles which were probably published but for which no copies have yet been discovered, and those titles which were announced but do not seem to have been published. Professor Joel Myerson and Merrill Horton (both from the University of South Carolina) provided valuable help, Professor Myerson with the Walt Whitman entries, and Merrill Horton in tracking down Scott copies in North America. Mr Edwin Gilcher willingly shared his knowledge of the bibliography of George Moore and took great pains to answer my questions. Myi colleague David Stoker was always ready to listen to my problems and suggest solutions; by sharing his knowledge of computing and giving hours of his time, the effort of compilation was significantly reduced. Mrs Ann Hill took on the 5 formidable task of keyboarding the first draft of all the entries. Above all, it has been librarians throughout the world who made the bibliography possible. The work could never have started without the help of the legion of librarians who eagerly and cheerfully answered my first enquiries. Cheerful replies almost inevitably led to a flood of other enquiries. I am most grateful that librarians never seem to apply Richard Strauss' advice to conductors (never smile encouragingly at the brass) to bibliographers. Abbreviations and References Bksl: The Bookseller eps: end-papers Ferguson: John Alexander Ferguson A Bibliography of Australia, Canberra: National Library of Australia, 8 vols, 1975-77 Gilchen Edwin Gilcher A Bibliography of George Moore, Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1970 Green and Gibson: Richard L. Green and John M. Gibson A Bibliography of A. Conan Doyle, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983 Laurence: Dan H. Laurence Bernard Shaw: a Bibliography, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2 vols, 1983 Myerson Emerson: Joel Myerson Ralph Waldo Emerson: a Descriptive Bibliography, Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 1982 Myerson Whitman: Joel Myerson Walt Whitman: a Descriptive Bibliography, Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 1993 PC: The Publishers' Circular PL: Public Library pubd: published 6 Refcat: Reference Catalogue of Current Literature, London: Joseph Whitaker, 1875-1932 Wade: Allan Wade A Bibligraphy of the Writings ofWB. Yeats, London: Hart-Davis, 1958 Locations (in addition to NUC abbreviations) NLA: National Library of Australia NLW: National Library of Wales UW Aber: University of Wales, Aberystwyth UW Bangor University of Wales, Bangor UW Cardiff: University of Wales, Cardiff UW Swansea: University of Wales, Swansea 7 Books and Pamphlets 1 8 8 2 1 (a) APJOHN, Lewis Earl ofBeaconsfield [1882-83] MEMORABLE MEN OF THE NINETEENTH I [rule] I CENTURY.