ABSTRACT
Dated January 1817, issued April 1817, xvi, 430–80
The review was actually written in collaboration, mostly by Scott but partly by his friend, William Erskine, and contains editorial emendation by William Gifford, editor of the Quarterly.
For speculation on authorship of the various parts of the review, see Martin Lightfoot, ‘Scott’s Self-Reviewal: Manuscript and Other Evidence’, Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Sept. 1968), xxiii, 150–60.
