Title: The Ever Green, being a collection of Scots Poems, Wrote by the Ingenious before 1600. Vol I. Published published by Allan Ramsay 
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;">First of 2 volumes in 12mo. ff. [2] (blank), pp. xii, 272, ff. [2] (blank). Calf. Gilded spine on 5 bars, red lettering panel. Includes printer's device on title page, head- and tailpieces, and engraved initials. In English and Scottish. Bookplates of Fullerton of Carstairs and John Charles Hardy.</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 the ballad imitation ‘Hardyknute: a Fragment,’ as composed by Elizabeth Halket (1677-1727) and circulated by her brother-in-law Sir John Hope Bruce. ‘Hardyknute’ was 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 in a vault at Dumferline by Lady Wardlaw. The poem 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). In the present volume, Ramsay also included poems by himself and other modern authors as ‘ancient,’ and altered others. See also ESTC, T143032.</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/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039119399707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>