The lives and characters of the most eminent writers of the Scots nation; : with an abstract and catalogue of their works; their various editions; and the judgment of the learn'd concerning them. /
Mackenzie, George,1669-1725.
Edinburgh, : Printed by James Watson ... ,
M.DCC.VIII-MDCCXXII. [1708-1722]
Vol. 2 is dated 1711, and vol. 3 has the imprint: 'Edinburgh: Printed by William Adams Junior, 1722'.
The proposals for printing the volumes were issued as 'Proposals for printing The lives and characters of the most eminent writers of the Scots nation, &c.'.
With a list of subscribers in each volume.
With a table following page 26 of volume 1: The Calendar of the Primitive Church.
A variant has pages 510 and 511 of volume 3 printed upside-down.
Volume 3 has a list of the names of those recorded in the volume bound in at the back in a late 19th/early 20th-century hand on one leaf of a bifolium.
Includes bibliographies and indexes.
ESTC
English literature
Scottish literature
Scotland Edinburgh.