London: Printed for A. Millar, 1744. First edition, the issue with the price beneath the imprint. ESTC T187239; Foxon A296; Hayward 168; NCBEL II, 535. A long poem in blank verse on the virtues of fresh air, diet, exercise, and the passions. John Armstrong (1709-1779 ) was a Scottish-born physician.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, 8(a); NCBEL III, 364. An uncommon work by Scottish poet and playwright Joanne Baillie (1762-1851), the stories of several legendary historical figures told in verse, with extensive scholarly and historical notes. William Wallace.....
London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1743. First edition. ESTC N18218; Foxon B271; Hayward 166; NCBEL II, 537. The famous and often re-printed poem by Robert Blair; the most notable edition was illustrated by William Blake in 1808. The Grave is one of the classic works of the “graveyard school” of.....
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 a......
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." Contemporary bookplate of W......
Edinburgh: Printed by T. Ruddiman, 1785. Second edition, preceded by the first of 1773. ESTC T128607; NCBEL II, 406. ¶ An amusing miscellany first published by Scottish printer and publisher Walter Ruddiman (1719-1781) and here reissued by his son, Thomas, who continued his father's business. It includes poetry, sketches and.....
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.....
London: Printed and Sold by A. Millar, 1760. First and only edition; there was a reissue in 1861 with a cancel title. ESTC T136422; NCBEL II, 640. The first book by the Scottish poet and philosopher James Beattie. Ink signature of Jas. French, dated 1764, on the title-page.
Edinburgh: Printed by John Paterson, 1796. Third edition. ESTC T144079; NCBEL II, 2021. The considerably expanded third 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.....
Edinburgh: Printed by Balfour & Smellie, 1773. First and only edition. ESTC T67787.; NCBEL II, 2053 (Hailes). ¶ A polite response, with some deferential corrections, to Lord Hailes and his History of Scotland, published earlier in 1773.
London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly; Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and J. Bell, 1768. First edition. ESTC T138559; NCBEL II, 693. Fables in verse by the poet William Wilkie (1721-1772), followed by a dialogue between "The Author and Friend." The engravings are well executed.