Ranger's impartial list of the ladies of pleasure in Edinburgh, with a preface by a celebrated wit..
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Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick,1781-1851,donor.StEdNL
Craig, James T. Gibson(James Thomson Gibson),1799-1886,former owner.StEdNL
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose,Earl of,1847-1929,former owner.StEdNL
Tytler, James,1745-1804,attributed name.StEdNL
Williamson, Peter,1730-1799,attributed printer.StEdNL
Edinburgh: : Printed for the author.,
1775..
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Manuscript inscription on the front pastedown "Presented by Carolus á Cella Patricii Acatus, alias C. K. Sharpe To James G. Craig Esqre 1840". Sale catalogue description pasted onto the verso of the front free endpaper. Manuscript inscription on the second flyleaf "This book was purchased by Buchannan the bookseller in George St: at Constable's Sale - and afterwards bought from him by me, principally on account of a Mrs, or Lady, Agnew, recorded p. 35 - my mother's grand aunt, Lady Mary Montgomerie, married into the Lochman family; so I wished to possess this precious memorial of one of my female cousins - but my mother, who knew this generation of the Agnews intimately, assured me that this statement is entirely false - she never had heard of any such woman - which she must have done, from her grandmother Lady Eglintowne, and other relations, had such a person existed. C. K. Sharpe Edin: March, 1840". Manuscript inscription on the verso of the second flyleaf in pencil "Said to be written by Balloon Tytler - C. K. S." Manuscript inscription at the foot of the title page in pencil "Printed by P. Williamson", possibly in Rosebery's hand.
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