Lady of the Lake - The Original Classic Edition

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Lady of the Lake. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Sir Walter Scott, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Lady of the Lake: When I edited some of Grays poems several years ago, I found that they had not been correctly printed for more than half a century; but in the case of Scott I supposed that the text of Blacks so-called Authors Edition could be depended upon as accurate. ... 217 Scott wrote Found in each cliff a narrow bower, and it is so printed in the first edition; but in every other that I have seen cliff appears in place of clift,, to the manifest injury of the passage. In ii. 685, every edition that I have seen since that of 1821 has I meant not all my heart might say, which is worse than nonsense, the correct reading being my heat. ...I have done the best I could, with the means at my command, to settle these questions, and am at least certain that the text as I give it is nearer right than in any edition since 1821 As all the variae lectiones are recorded in the Notes, the reader who does not approve of the one I adopt can substitute that which he prefers....There are, of course, many of them which many of my readers will not need, but I think there are none that may not be of service, or at least of interest, to some of them; and I hope that no one will turn to them for help without finding it.