An excellent collection of the best Scotch proverbs /
Ramsay, Allan,1686-1758.
Glasgow : Printed for the booksellers,
[ca. 1850]
Illustration on title page.
Dated from examination of text and style.
There is a variant with '54' printed beneath the imprint.
This title page has an illustration of two men standing. This differs from the item placed at [Ao].8/3.1(1) where the text is identical.
The chapbook is bound in a wrapper on which is written in manuscript : No 54. An/ Excellent Collection/ Of the Best/ Scotch Proverbs,/ Selected/ By Allan Ramsay./ woodcut: half-length portrait of a loutish loking man/ Glasgow:/ Printed for the Booksellers./ 54. 24pp. title within ornamental border outside which at foot is 54. Verso blank Text pp. (3)-24. A. Duncan Smith's copy. 6 July 1910.
Scotland Glasgow.