The gentle shepherd, : a pastoral comedy; /
Ramsay, Allan,1686-1758.
Scott, William,active 1775-1790?,binder.StEdNL: Bdg.m.156?
Allan, David,1744-1796.illustrator.
Glasgow : : Printed by A. Foulis, and sold by D. Allan, Dickson's Closs, Edinburgh, also by J. Murray, no.32. Fleet-Street, and C. Elliot, Strand, London.,
M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]
With a half-title.
Plates: uncoloured aquatints : frontispiece portrait of author and 12 numbered plates (second plate unnumbered) engraved by David Allan ; nine leaves of engraved music, pp.1-18, unsigned.
Plates engraved by David Allan have his imprint as publisher dated Edinburgh 1788, with frontispiece and plates 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 10 dated 12 July 1788.
"In this, the editor has followed the orthography of the quarto edition published by the author, in 1728". - Advertisement
With 2 extra plates (1 folded) by S. Shelley after C.G. Playter (1786) and G. Morland (1785).
ESTC
Gaskell, P. Foulis Press,
Martin, B. 'Allan Ramsay' RGBS, 10,
English versions of most of the Scottish words in the text are written in manuscript on the margins throughout in an unidentified contemporary hand.
Contemporary tan calf with alternate gilt tree-calf and sprinkled chequered boards, stencilled sprinkled star-burst within gilt central oval with gilt tools of musical instruments and player's mask at centre, 7 compartments to spine each with a gilt trophy of musical instruments, gilt black morocco label, gilt dentelles and blue marbled endpapers, in the style of James and William Scott of Edinburgh.
Scotland Glasgow.