Letters of the critical club, : containing miscellaneous observations upon men, manners, and writings. ... .
Tod, William,active 1738,former owner.StEdNL: L.C.160
Guild, James Wyllie,former owner.StEdNL: L.C.160
Laing, David,1793-1878,former owner.StEdNL: Ry.IV.g.12
Edinburgh, : Printed by W. Cheyne, and sold by A. Martin, and other booksellers in town.,
MDCCXXXVIII. [1738-
Imprint includes year of publication in roman.
Title repeated on title page of each monthly number; portion of title repeated as caption at head of first page of text in each issue.
Below title: Begun in the month of January, 1738. and published monthly at Edinburgh.
Pagination based on assessment of all copies.
Each issue includes six letters, dated irregularly through the month, with continous numbering and pagination.
Includes essays, personal in tone, on moral and philosophical topics, with anecdotes and correspondence; most issues include an appendix with poetry.
With a frontispiece.
Pencil note on front pastedown: This work, reckoned the first attempt in Scotland to imitate the stile and manner of the Spectator is generally said to have been written by David Burnes[?] Esqr.- Hy. Home Lord Kaims- Prisident Forbes. No more but this one volume published.
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Volume includes supplemental: Appendix ... which completes the history of Ti Ching.
Subjects.
Ink inscription at head of front pastedown: Willm. Tod Junr. 1738. Pencil inscription on back pastedown: Bot at Wyllie Guilds Sale.
Ink inscription at head of verso of front flyleaf: from Laing sale 1887 lot 1559. Cutting from Laing sale catalogue pasted onto same leaf.
Collects, with added prefatory material, monthly issues of: Letters of the critical club.
Conduct of life
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