The original three volumes appear in two, though Percy's arrangement of
Books remains unaltered and consecutive.
A few explanatory foot-notes, the fruit of late research, increase the already
copious stock, but the paternity of all such is distinctly noted.
The work, then, of revision and addition merely aims at heightening the
intrinsic merit of the early editions and at assisting in making the Reliques of 1875 an
improved re-cast.
THE EDITOR,
Oct., 1875.NOTES
- Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript. Ballads and Romances. Edited by C. W. Hales,
M.A., and F. J. Furnivall, M.A. 4 vols. (Trubner & CO. 1868.) - Advertisement to the fourth edition of theReliques, 1794.
- Percy's Folio MS. i., xiii.
- Percy's Folio MS. i., xvi.
- Lockhart's Life of Scott, chap.i.