The poems of Allan Ramsay. : A new edition, corrected, and enlarged; with a glossary. To which are prefixed, a life of the author, from authentic documents: and remarks on his poems, from a large view of their merits. In two volumes. Vol. I[-II]..
Ramsay, Allan,1686-1758.
Chalmers, George,1742-1825.Life of Allan Ramsay.
Woodhouselee, Alexander Fraser Tytler,Lord,1747-1813.Remarks on the genius and writings of Allan Ramsay.
Pitcairn, Robert,1793-1855,inscriberStEdNL: Ry.II.d.6-7
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose,Earl of,1847-1929,former owner.StEdNL: Ry.II.d.6-7
London: : Printed by A. Strahan ... for T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies ...,
1800..
The Life of Allan Ramsay was written by the editor, George Chalmers; the Remarks on the genius and writings of Allan Ramsay were written by Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee.
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Manuscript inscriptions on the front pastedown of the first volume "Prose works / Essay on the Drama / this Collection of Scots Proverbs"; calculation resulting in "367 pp. for Each Vol"; inscription in pencil "Bought at the sale of the Books of the late Robert Pitcairne Esq Editor of the Criminal Trials  lot-196--with many MSS corrections addition of Suppressed passages - apparently intendended [sic] for the notes + Corrections by Mr Pitcairn a new edition but never published". Stamp of Barnbougle Castle Catalogue on head of the front free endpaper. Manuscript inscriptions in an eighteenth-century hand also on the front free endpaper "Motto to Vol I of the original Quarto / Let them censure, what care I? / The herd of critics I defy! / No, no! the fair, the gay, the young, / Govern the numbers of my song: / All that they approve is sweet, / And all is sense that they repeat. / Prior from Anaenean.  To Vol II. / Men still are men! and they who boldly dare / Shall triumph o'er the sons of cold despair.-- / We bring from new materials; and what's old, / New cast with care, and in no borrowed mould / Lute tunes[?] the verse may rend, if these refuse / And from four critics vindicate the muse! / Dr. Young". Armorial bookplate of the 5th Earl of Rosebery at the bottom of the front free endpaper. In the second volume, the front pastedown also has the armorial bookplate of the 5th Earl of Rosebery. Various manuscript notes and emendations throughout the text, with additional notes and poems tipped in throughout both volumes.
Ramsay, Allan, 1686-1758
Ramsay, Allan, 1686-1758.