[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce early collection of Scottish dialect poetry

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(SCOTLAND) Fergusson, David. A SELECT COLLECTION OF SCOTS POEMS Chiefly in 
the Broad Buchan Dialect. To Which Is Added a Collection of Scots Proverbs... 
Edinburgh: Printed by T. Ruddiman and Co. 1785. 12mo. 2 parts in 1. 
(4),38,60;36pp. Nicely bound in early 20th c. 1/2 red morocco, gilt decorated spine, over 
marbled boards. Table of contents leaf closely trimmed at fore-margin, 
affecting a few page numbers. Bookplate on front pastedown.     $450.00 (trade 
discount allowed)
A scarce early edition. Two of the selections in the first part are in 
macaronic verse (Latin and Scots). The second part, “A Collection of Scottish 
Proverbs,” are arranged in alphabetical order. Fergusson, the compiler of this work, 
died in 1598. Among the authors represented are Robert Forbes, William 
Forbes, and William Drummond.

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