The Irvine and county of Ayr miscellany, from September, 1814 - to July, 1815..
Reidengraver,active 1815.
Hastie, James.
Irvine. : Printed and published by J. Mennons & Son, and sold by J. Templeton, Irvine - A. Forsyth, and J. Jamieson Air - J. Meuros, and R. Mathie, Kilmarnock - G. Caldwell, Sen. and Jun. Paisley - W. Whyte, Beith - J. Ross, Ardrossan - W. Wilson, Saltcoats - and by others in the adjacent towns.,
1815..
Issued in monthly parts, with continuious register and pagination.
Issues between September 1814 and March 1815 are monthly.  From April 1815 issues are published every 4 weeks from April 1 - July 22, 1815.
MSS note in contemporary hand on front free endpaper: "This is - as far as I observe - the earliest of these local periodicals - all of them were got up with a geat deal of care & industry - the Mennons - father & son left Irvine for Greenock where they made themselves a name.  James Hastie"
Scotland Irvine.