 Within a few years Scott, trading as the Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd., published "several hundred volumes".His publications featured a number of book reprint series (including the Camelot Classics, the Canterbury Poets, the Emerald Library, the Evergreen Library, the Great Writers and the Oxford Library) and a series of original works in The Contemporary Science Series.Scott married Anne Brough, daughter of John Brough of Bromfield, Cumberland.