The petition, at the sign of the fox and sour plumbs
Duncan, Gideon.
Whyte-Melville, John,Major,1796 or 1797-1883,former owner.StEdNL
Whyte-Melville, G. J.(George John),1821-1878,associated name.StEdNL
[Edinburgh?] [s.n.]
[ca 1800]
Title taken from half-title
NLS copy has a MS note "By G Duncan" and is bound with other pamphlets, one of which is a work by Gideon Duncan, in a contemporary binding labelled "Duncan's works"
The armorial bookplate of Whyte Melville of Bennochy and Strathkinness is pasted to the front pastedown, followed by a 20th-century inscription in pencil identifying the volume as "possibly property of the father of G. J. Whyte Melville". The title page is inscribed "by G Duncan" in ink, and there is also an ink correction of the text on p. 3. Bound in at the back of the volume are several leaves (part of them numbered 1-40). Leaves numbered 1-20 contain poems in a contemporary hand, presumably that of an ancestor of Whyte Melville identified on the bookplate. The poems, which are of religious character, appear to be private compositions.
Scotland Edinburgh.