Accession number
PML 5886
Published
Glasgow : Printed for and sold by John Murdoch ..., [1799].
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Date supplied by Egerer.
Originally issued bi-monthly in twenty separate numbers of 8 pp., with separate title pages.
Engraved title added ("Dearie sculp.").
Includes first publication of "To Eliza" and "The bonny lass of Ballochmyle" by Robert Burns (no. 18); an early printing of "Crazy Jane" by Matthew Gregory Lewis (no. 14); "Ode to the god of eating" by John Maclaurin, Lord Dreghorn (no. 19); first publication of "Lines addressed to Horace Walpole" concerning Catherine Clive by John Wolcot (as "Peter Pindar," no. 10); and an early verse translation of Claudianus' "Epithalamium" (nos. 9-10, and 20).
Publisher's advertisements.
Originally issued bi-monthly in twenty separate numbers of 8 pp., with separate title pages.
Engraved title added ("Dearie sculp.").
Includes first publication of "To Eliza" and "The bonny lass of Ballochmyle" by Robert Burns (no. 18); an early printing of "Crazy Jane" by Matthew Gregory Lewis (no. 14); "Ode to the god of eating" by John Maclaurin, Lord Dreghorn (no. 19); first publication of "Lines addressed to Horace Walpole" concerning Catherine Clive by John Wolcot (as "Peter Pindar," no. 10); and an early verse translation of Claudianus' "Epithalamium" (nos. 9-10, and 20).
Publisher's advertisements.
Description
[2], [160] p. ; 15 cm.
Provenance
From the Theodore Irwin collection.
Binding
Brown calf, gilt-tooled, by Francis Bedford.
Classification
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