Although printed in 1785, the introductory matter was destroyed by fire, and Ritson abandoned the completion of it. The sheets eventually fell into the hands of Triphook, who issued it thus, with a new title page, preface, and, according to him a portrait by "Mrs. Park of Hampstead" - which..... Read More about

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863. Paton, Noel & Walter. Later edition (First was 1849). Read More about Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and |Brown, 1823. First edition. Read More about A Collection of Poems, chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors

Glasgow: John S. Marr, 1866. First edition. Read More about One Hundred Songs

Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable, 1822. First edition. Read More about The Pirate

Brooklyn, New York: Printed by Thomas Kirk, Sands-street, 1807. Fourth American Edition from the ninth and last London edition. Balir was a central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. Here offered in edition by the first Brooklyn Printer of his lectures while he was the Regius Chair of Rhetoric and Belles..... Read More about Lectures on Rhetoric and Belle Lettres

London: Foulis for E. and C. Dilly, 1768. First edition, with cancels at E2 & Z3. First edition in contemporary binding of Boswell's first major work — an account of his trip to Corsica and his meeting with General Pasquale Paoli, leader of the Corsican independence movement. "With its reports..... Read More about An Account of Corsica, The Journal of a Tour to that Island and memoirs of Pascal Paoli

Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1908. First edition, variant binding, without ads. Interesting collection of Buchan’s early literary journalism, with emphasis on Scottish themes, including Prince Charles Edward and the Jacobite cause. Read More about Some Eighteenth Century Byways and other essays

Philadelphia: Gebbie & Co, 1886. Edition de Luxe. One of 1000 numbered sets. Read More about The Complete Works of

London and Edinburgh: A. Fukkarton and Co, nd. Read More about The Works of Robert Burns. edited by The Ettrick Shepard, and William Motherwell

London: Printed for Willaim Allason, No. 31, New Bond Street and J. Maynard, Fanton Street, Haymarket, 1819. “A New Edition”. An attractive set of Burns works in an American acid-stained binding. Read More about The Works of … with an Account of His Life … as Edited by James Currie, M.D

Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1915. One of 475 copies printed on japan Vellum paper. Read More about The Cotter's Saturday Night

Sydenham: 19 February 1816. Campbell (1777-1844) writes to an unnamed recipient, declining to review a volume of poetry but offering his services in making an introduction and mentioning the author and editor William Gifford and the publisher John Murray. The letter reads, in part: "Respecting the volume of Poems …..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed ("T. Campbell"