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Reliquiae Trotcosienses
Scott, Sir Walter. Ed(S): Carruthers, Gerard; Lumsden, Alison
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Description for Reliquiae Trotcosienses
Hardback. This is the first publication of Reliquiae Trotcosienses. Editor(s): Carruthers, Gerard; Lumsden, Alison. Num Pages: 168 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 342.
Reliquiae Trotcosienses was one of Scott's last works, and, after his death, was suppressed by his literary executor and his publisher. Although extracts were published in 1889 and 1905, this is the first complete edition, and has been edited from the manuscript recently relocated in the library at Abbotsford, the house near Melrose in the Scottish Borders which Scott built for his library and museum. Reliquiae Trotcosienses (the relics of Trotcosey) is a guide to Abbotsford and to its collections, and illustrates in miniature all the different ways in which Scott tried to recover the past: in building, in collecting, ... Read more
Reliquiae Trotcosienses was one of Scott's last works, and, after his death, was suppressed by his literary executor and his publisher. Although extracts were published in 1889 and 1905, this is the first complete edition, and has been edited from the manuscript recently relocated in the library at Abbotsford, the house near Melrose in the Scottish Borders which Scott built for his library and museum. Reliquiae Trotcosienses (the relics of Trotcosey) is a guide to Abbotsford and to its collections, and illustrates in miniature all the different ways in which Scott tried to recover the past: in building, in collecting, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748620722
SKU
V9780748620722
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About Scott, Sir Walter. Ed(S): Carruthers, Gerard; Lumsden, Alison
Gerard Carruthers is Reader and Head of Department in Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is General Editor of the forthcoming multi-volume Oxford University Press edition of the works of Robert Burns and is Director of the Centre for Robert Burns Studies. He is also the author of Robert Burns (Northcote, 2006), editor of The Devil to Stage: ... Read more
Reviews for Reliquiae Trotcosienses
The book's publication is, one hopes, a sign that a serious scholarly return to Scott is underway! in recent years, the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels has attempted to reintroduce the Waverley Novels in their original, pre-Magnum Opus form, and one hopes that a new generation of readers will discover the author's remarkable descriptions of historical battles, deadly storms, ... Read more