Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway song
Subtitle: with historical and traditional notices relative to the manners and customs of the peasantry. Now first published by R. H. Cromek, F. A. S. Ed. Editor of ‘The Reliques of Robert Burns’
Publisher: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies … By T. Bensley
Published: 1810
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
Description: <p></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;">8vo. f. [1], pp. viii, xxxii, 370. Signatures: A4 a-b8 B-Z8 AA8 BB1. Half calf, presentation copy from Cromek to Alexander Fraser Tytler (Lord Woodhouselee) dated 1 December 1810, inscribed by Tytler on title page. Includes title vignette.</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;">Contains many forged ballads provided to Cromek by Allan Cunningham (see J. A. Farrer, Literary forgeries. London and New York, 1907, pp. 261-65: ‘as full of falsity as anything in the English language’). It is unclear whether Cromek suspected the imposition. See also L. Stephen (ed.), Dictionary of National Biography. London, 1888, vol. XIII, p. 144; D. Hogg, Life of Allan Cunningham. London, 1875, esp. p. 49ff. &amp; 79.</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_4103430" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>