ABSTRACT
Extracts from The Works of John Dryden, now first Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, by Walter Scott, Esq. (1808): A, from the Life; and B, from the Commentary. ‘This was the bold speculation of William Miller of Albemarle Street, London; and the editor’s fee, at forty guineas the volume, was £756’ (Lockhart). See Introduction, pp. 17–23; and J. M. Osborn’s discussion in John Dryden: Some Biographical Facts and Problems (revd. edn., 1965).
