Altrive tales
By: collected among the peasantry of Scotland, and from foreign adventurers by the Ettrick Shepherd ; with illustrations by George Cruikshank
Contributors: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, illustrator
Publisher: J. Cochrane
Published: 1832
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Social life and customs; Fiction; Peasants
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Notes: "Vol. I." No more published.

The author's portrait is engraved by W.C. Edwards after Charles Fox; the plate is by Cruikshank.

Includes "Memoir of the author's life" (p. [i]-xciii) and "Reminiscences of former days" (p. xciv-cli) both by Hogg.