An essay of the nature and actions of the subterranean (and, for the most part) invisible people heretofoir going under the name of elves, faunes and fairies
Subtitle: or the lyke, among the low-country Scots, as they are described by those who have the second sight and now, to occasion further inquiry
By: collected by a circumspect inquirer residing among the Scottish- Irish in Scotland ; with an appendix, consisting of extracts from a treatise on second sight by Theophilus Insulanus
Contributors: Macleod, Donald, 1729?-1781.
Publisher: Reprinted by James Ballantyne & Co., for Longman, Rees, Orme, & Brown, London
Published: 1815
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 97
Subjects: Fairies -- Scotland; Precognition; Clairvoyance; Parapsychology
Other titles: Secret commonwealth; Extracts from a treatise on the second sight, dreams and apparitions
Notes: Author's name from added t.p. and p. [v]

"100 copies only printed"--T.p. verso

"Probably the original printed edition."--R. Kirk.  Secret commonwealth; ed. by A. Lang, 1893., p. x; first edition according to NCBEL, cited below

Added t.p., reproduction of ms. title dated 1691, reads: Secret commonwealth; or, A treatise displayeing the chiefe curiosities as they are in use among diverse of the people of Scotland to this day ... / by Mr. Robert Kirk .

"This curious tract ... is printed literally from a manuscript copy preserved in the Advocate's Library"--P. [v]

This reprint has been ascribed to Sir Walter Scott and to Robert Jamieson

With appendix entitled "Extracts from a treatise on the second sight, dreams, apparitions, &c. / by Theophilus Insulanus" [pseud. of Donald MacLeod], p. [47]-97

NCBEL, II, 2058

cf. Caillet, A.L.  Sciences psychiques, II, p. 366, no. 5800