Chevy-chase, With a preface Endeavouring to prove that the Author intended the Earl of Douglass for his Hero; and notes on some Passages of the Poem. To which is subjoined, Hardyknute, a fragment. Being the first Canto of an Epic Poem, with notes
Publisher: Printed and sold by F. Douglass and W. Murray
Published: 1754
Place of publication: Aberdeen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 50
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. xii, 32. Signatures: A-E4 F2. Disbound and in recent boards. Running title Hardyknute misprinted on page 17 as Hardkknume.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">While first printed on a single duodecimo leaf in 1719 (D.F. Foxon, English Verse, 1701-1750, W 213, known in only three copies) as an ancient poem discovered by Elizabeth Halket (1677-1727) in a vault at Dumferline, and included by Allan Ramsay among ‘Scots poems write by the ingenious before 1600’ in his ‘The Ever Green, being a collection of Scots poems: Wrote by the Ingenious before 1600,’ 1723 (Bib# 4103137/Fr# 483 in this collection), ‘Hardyknute’ was recognized as a skilful pastiche by Lady Wardlaw herself in Bishop Percy’s Reliques of ancient English poetry, consisting of old heroic ballads, songs, and other pieces of our earlier poets (London, 1765, Bib# 4103138/Fr# 484). A forged ‘Second Part’ by John Pinkerton deceived Percy, however, until Pinkerton himself revealed the imposture. This little edition of the poem pre-dates its ‘exposure,’ and nothing in the accompanying notes gives any hint of its modern auspices. Early editions are all scarce: ESTC online records three locations for this one in the UK, and just two (Harvard and Cleveland Public) in the USA.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_7138287" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>