[Rarebooks] FS: "Collection of Scots Poem, Chiefly in... Dialect" Edinburgh: 1785

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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 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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