Poems by Allan Ramsay..
Ramsay, Allan,1686-1758.
Butler, Charles,1821-1910,former owner.StEdNL: Bdg.m.22
Brooke, John Arthur,former owner.StEdNL: Bdg.m.22
Edinburgh: : Printed by Mr. Thomas Ruddiman, for the author.,
1721..
Reissued with a cancel t.p. ("Volume I") in 1728, to accompany the publication of the second volume in the same year.
With "A glossary or explanation of the Scots words us'd by the author, which are rarely or never found in the modern English writings" on pp. 381-398.
With a list of subscribers and an index.
ESTC
Foxon
Martin, B. RGBS 10 (1931),
Bound in at the front of the volume are three leaves on which is written in a contemporary hand a copy of Ramsay's 'Ode' to William Somerville. The first of these leaves is inscribed "C m - 1 Octagon Lib." in a late 18th century hand. Ownership bookplates on the front pastedown "From the collection of Charles Butler of Warren Wood Hatfield" and "John Arthur Brooke".
In a contemporary Scottish binding of morocco, blind-and-gold-tooled.
Scotland Edinburgh.