London: Printed for A. Millar, 1744. First edition. Rothschild 56; Hayward 168; NCBEL II, 535. A long poem in blank verse on the virtures of fresh air, diet, exercise, and the passions. John Armstrong (1709-1779 ) was a Scottish-born physician who published several other poems, essays, and miscellaneous works; this...
London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1743. First edition. Rothschild 411; Hayward 166; NCBEL II, 537. Robert Blair’s famous and often re-printed work, the most notable edition of which was illustrated by William Blake in 1808. The Grave is one of the classic works of the “graveyard school” of poetry, also...
Edinburgh: Printed by John Paterson, 1796. Second edition. NCBEL II, 2021. The considerably expanded second edition of the works of Scottish poet Michael Bruce (1746-67), who did not publish a poem in his lifetime. A small selection of his works were compiled by a classmate, John Logan, and published as...
Edinburgh: Printed and Sold by John and James Ainslies, Booksellers, [1788]. First edition. Lowe, Arnott and Robinson, English Theatrical Literature, 1949. A defense by the young actor James Fennell (1766-1816) of his conduct on stage at Edinburgh's Theatre Royal, where he was interrupted with hissing and shouting by the theater...
Edinburgh: Printed for Arch. Constable and Vernor and Hood, 1800. First edition. NCBEL II, 2028; not in Garside and Schöwerling. ¶ An autobiographical novel by Scottish poet Hector MacNeill (1746-1818) who was sent to the West Indies as a young man in hopes that he would find a vocation as...
Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1759. First edition. Gaskell, Foulis Press, 372. Three essays by James Moor, the most substantial of which is an interpretation of Plato's "Dialogue of Cebes" entitled "Essay on the Composition of the Picture Described in the Dialogue of Cebes."
Edinburgh: Printed by Balfour & Smellie, 1773. First and only edition. NCBEL II, 2053 (Hailes); ESTC T67787. ¶ A polite response, with some deferential corrections, to Lord Hailes and his History of Scotland, published earlier in 1773.
Edinburgh: Printed by T. Ruddman, 1785. Second edition, preceded by the first of 1773. This is, in fact, the sheets of the first edition, with a new title-page and advertisement. NCBEL II, 406. ¶ An amusing miscellany first published by Walter Ruddiman (1719-1781) and here reissued by his son, Thomas...
Circa 1820. Apparently not published in this form. ¶ A traditional Scottish song, a shorter version of which Scott included in The Fortunes of Nigel (1822), page 476. James Hogg also had a version of this song in his The Jacobite Relics of Scotland (1819-1821). Scott collected his own renderings...