Footsteps of Scott

218 pp. Tipped in color plates. Illustrations by Tom Scott. CONTENTS: Walter Scott's Land; Marriage and "The Minstrelsy"; Ashestiel and the Verse Romances; Abbotsford; Footprints of Waverley; "Fair Melrose"; The Last Phase; Scott To-Day. Excerpt from Footsteps of Scott: "But if the range of genius is to delimit the Country of Sir Walter, not all the inspiration of his own, his native land were sufficient for such a Master. True to the old moss-trooping traditions, we should find ourselves making sundry raids a cross the Border: into the central England of Ivanhoe, for instance; into the Warwick shire of Kem'lworth - the richest of all the English counties in literary association; into the Derbyshire of Peveril of the Peak; into the Oxfordshire of W'oodstock, and the fascinating London of The Fortunes of Nigel. Nor would one omit the Welsh Borderland of The Betrothed, or the Isle of Man, where Julian Peveril Opened out his whole heart to the beautiful Alice Bridgenorth. Neither, from the stand point of our author's productiveness, does this terminate the scope of his Country." "Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, FRSE (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet. Many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature. Famous titles include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Old Mortality, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor. Although primarily remembered for his extensive literary works and his political engagement, Scott was an advocate, judge and legal administrator by profession, and throughout his career combined his writing and editing work with his daily occupation as Clerk of Session and Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire. A prominent member of the Tory establishment in Edinburgh, Scott was an active member of the Highland Society and served a long term as President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1820–32)."