The investigator. : Containing the following tracts: I. On ridicule. II. On Elizabeth Canning. III. On naturalization. IV. On taste..
Ramsay, Allan,1713-1784.
Ramsay, Allan,1713-1784.Essay on ridicule.
Ramsay, Allan,1713-1784.Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of -- concerning the affair of Elizabeth Canning.
Ramsay, Allan,1713-1784.Essay on the naturalization of foreigners.
Ramsay, Allan,1713-1784.Dialogue on taste.
Mackenzie, John Whitefoord,1794-1884,former owner.StEdNL
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose,Earl of,1847-1929,former owner.StEdNL
Craig, James T. Gibson(James Thomson Gibson),1799-1886,former owner.StEdNL
Murray, John Archibald Murray,Lord,1778-1859,former owner.StEdNL
Ramsay, Allan,1713-1784,annotator.StEdNL
Barnbougle Castle.Library,former owner.StEdNL
London: : [s.n.],
printed in the year M DCC LXII. [1762]
A collective edition of four essays by Allan Ramsay, the Younger, each with its own title page, pagination, and register, as follows: An essay on ridicule. London: printed for A. Millar ... 1753. - A letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of -- concerning the affair of Elizabeth Canning. By a clergyman. London, printed for T. Seddon ... 1753. - An essay on the naturalization of foreigners. The second edition. London: printed in the year 1762. - A dialogue on taste. The second edition. London: printed in the year 1762.
Last leaf is blank.
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Armorial bookplates of John Whitefoord Mackenzie and the 5th Earl of Rosebery on the front pastedown. Catalogue cutting from Gibson Craig sale of 1888 numbered '4078' pasted onto the verso of front free endpaper which states that the notes and corrections are "apparently in the author's handwriting". Manuscript inscription on the recto of the front flyleaf: "Unique. With various MSS Additions and Cuttings. From Lord Murray's Library." Stamp of Barnbougle Castle Library at the head of the front flyleaf. Manuscript annotations throughout the text in Allan Ramsay's hand.
Canning, Elizabeth, 1734-1773
Ridicule
Naturalization
Aesthetics
Essays, English
Dialogues, English