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    My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror by Sir Walter Scott (Illustrated)
    My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror by Sir Walter Scott (Illustrated)
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    This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott’.

    Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Scott includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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    LanguageEnglish
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    Release dateJul 17, 2017
    ISBN9781786568762
    My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror by Sir Walter Scott (Illustrated)
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    Walter Scott

    Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) was a poet, translator, playwright, and historical novelist, born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Although he was critically acclaimed for his poetry, his passion for Scottish oral tradition led him to write novels inspired by the history of his country. The first writer in the English language to achieve true international fame, Scott is best remembered for Ivanhoe.

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      My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror by Sir Walter Scott (Illustrated) - Walter Scott

      The Complete Works of

      SIR WALTER SCOTT

      VOLUME 28 OF 62

      My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2015

      Version 7

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror’

      Sir Walter Scott: Parts Edition (in 62 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78656 876 2

      Delphi Classics

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      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

      Contact: [email protected]

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      Sir Walter Scott: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 28 of the Delphi Classics edition of Sir Walter Scott in 62 Parts. It features the unabridged text of My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Sir Walter Scott, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of Sir Walter Scott or the Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott in a single eBook.

      Learn more about our Parts Edition, with free downloads, via this link or browse our most popular Parts here.

      SIR WALTER SCOTT

      IN 62 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Novels

      1, Waverley

      2, Guy Mannering

      3, The Antiquary

      4, Black Dwarf

      5, Old Mortality

      6, Rob Roy

      7, The Heart of Midlothian

      8, The Bride of Lammermoor

      9, A Legend of Montrose

      10, Ivanhoe

      11, The Monastery

      12, The Abbot

      13, Kenilworth

      14, The Pirate

      15, The Fortunes of Nigel

      16, Peveril of the Peak

      17, Quentin Durward

      18, St. Ronan’s Well

      19, Redgauntlet

      20, The Betrothed

      21, The Talisman

      22, Woodstock

      23, The Fair Maid of Perth

      24, Anne of Geierstein

      25, Count Robert of Paris

      26, Castle Dangerous

      The Shorter Fiction

      27, Chronicles of the Canongate

      28, My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror

      29, The Tapestried Chamber

      30, Death of the Laird’s Jock.

      31, Miscellaneous Short Pieces

      The Plays

      32, Goetz von Berlichingen

      33, Halidon Hill

      34, Macduff’s Cross

      35, The Doom of Devorgoil

      36, Auchindrane

      37, The House of Aspen

      The Poetry Collections

      38, Translations and Imitations from German Ballads

      39, The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border

      40, The Lay of the Last Minstrel

      41, Ballads and Lyrical Pieces

      42, Marmion

      43, The Lady of the Lake

      44, The Vision of Don Roderick

      45, The Bridal of Triermain

      46, Rokeby

      47, The Field of Waterloo

      48, The Lord of the Isles

      49, Harold the Dauntless

      50, Miscellaneous Poems

      The Non-Fiction

      51, The Life of John Dryden

      52, Paul’s Letters to His Kinsfolk

      53, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott

      54, The Letters of Malachi Malagrowther

      55, The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte

      56, Tales of a Grandfather

      57, Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

      58, Trial of Duncan Terig, Alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane MacDonald

      59, Miscellaneous Prose Works

      The Criticism

      60, The Criticism

      The Biographies

      61, Sir Walter Scott by Richard H. Hutton

      62, Sir Walter Scott by George Saintsbury

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      My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror

      CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION.

      AUNT MARGARET’S MIRROR.

      THE MIRROR.

      CHAPTER I.

      CHAPTER II.

      INTRODUCTION.

      The species of publication which has come to be generally known by the title of ANNUAL, being a miscellany of prose and verse, equipped with numerous engravings, and put forth every year about Christmas, had flourished for a long while in Germany before it was imitated in this country by an enterprising bookseller, a German by birth, Mr. Ackermann. The rapid success of his work, as is the custom of the time, gave birth to a host of rivals, and, among others, to an Annual styled The Keepsake, the first volume of which appeared in 1828, and attracted much notice, chiefly in consequence of the very uncommon splendour of its illustrative accompaniments. The expenditure which the spirited proprietors lavished on this magnificent volume is understood to have been not less than from ten to twelve thousand pounds sterling!

      Various gentlemen of such literary reputation that any one might think it

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