![A Letter to the Editor of the Edinburgh Weekly Journal from Malachi Malagrowther, Esq. on the Proposed Change of Currency and Other Late Alterations, as They Affect, or are Intended to Affect, the Kingdom of Scotland [With:] A Second Letter … [And:] A Third Letter …](http://www.jamescumminsbookseller.com/pictures/thumb/229498.jpg?v=1438724732)
Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Company for William Blackwood, Edinburgh: and T. Cadell, Strand, London, 1826. Second... Read More
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Cagne-sur-Mer, France: The L-D Allen Press, 1952. One of 300 copies. Read More
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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863. Paton, Noel & Walter. Later edition (First was 1849). Read More
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London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1891. First edition in book form, with half-titles and 16 pages of publishers' ads, on the first page of which is "5G.9.91" First Edition, In Full Calf Binding. Barrie's sentimental tale of the young Scottish preacher who marries, loses, and regains his gypsy bride, this... Read More
Price: $750
Edinburgh: for William Creech & T. Cadell, London, 1787. First edition. An attractive copy of this interesting work: “The book is well wrote” (p.104) and was discussed by Beattie with Samuel Johnson (p.105 “The Scots have been accused of misapplying the active verb, To want … I mentioned this to... Read More
Price: $1,250
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 Lettres. Read More
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County Fife, Scotland: November 2, 1795. [With:] HORSBRUGH, Thomas, Deputy sheriff clerk. Autograph Letter, signed (“Thos. Horsbrugh”), to Claud I Boswell. Cupar, Scotland: 24 October 1795. 4to (10 x 15 3/4 inches; 250 x 400 mm. across the fold). 3 1/4 pp. Usual fold lines. A very good copy. Torrential... Read More
Price: $450
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
Price: $2,000
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
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Philadelphia: Gebbie & Co, 1886. Edition de Luxe. One of 1000 numbered sets. Read More
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London: printed for the editor by Richards and Co, 1821. Read More
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London and Edinburgh: A. Fukkarton and Co, nd. Read More
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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
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London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1809. Sixth Edition. Read More
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Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1915. One of 475 copies printed on japan Vellum paper. Read More
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![[Literary Remains. Collection of manuscript Drinking Songs, Poems, and late fragments]. Alexander Campbell.](/pictures/thumb/305557.jpg?v=1495471488)
[Edinburgh, etc: 1815-1823]. Alexander Campbell (1764–1824), composer and writer, published several collections of Scottish songs, and while a teacher in Edinburgh “gave lessons in harpsichord and singing. Among his pupils were Walter Scott and his brothers, but the lads had no taste for the subject and the master had no... Read More
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![Autograph letter signed "T. Campbell" to Mrs. [John] Hughes, accepting her invitation to breakfast. Thomas Campbell.](/pictures/thumb/217156.jpg?v=1447132459)
[London], Middle Scotland Yard Whitehall: 19 March , n.y.[after 1822]. Thomas Campbell: "a prim pure presbyterian poetaster" A witty acceptance letter to the mother of Thomas Hughes (author of TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS), from the Scottish poet Campbell (1777-1844), author of THE PLEASURES OF HOPE. Accepting the invitation to breakfast... Read More
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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
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Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson, & Ferrier, 1883. First edition. Read More
Price: $100
Liverpool: Printed and Published by the Author, 1888. First edition. Read More
Price: $125
London: Published for the Proprietors by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, Paternoster Row, nd. Read More
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London: Printed for J. Johnson et al [by J. Woodfall, Printer, Paternoster-row], 1808. Read More
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"Porteous's Lodgings, 18 Duncan Street" [Edinburgh]: Sat. December 29, [1830]. A short, poignant note from the great essayist, memoirist, and biographer of the Lake Poets, begging to be excused from an engagement as his wife and daughter are sick. The small scrap of paper, without wax seal, suggest the author's... Read More
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Edinburgh: Longman, Hurst, Rees, 1816. Second Edition. Read More
Price: $500