[Rarebooks] FS: "...Scots Poems, Chiefly in the Buchan 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 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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