[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce work in macaronic verse with an early poem on golf. Edinburgh: 1813

[Kenneth Karmiole]

[Duncan, Andrew (ed.)]. CARMINUM RARIORUM MACARONICARUM DELECTUS: in Usum Ludorum Apollinarium, Quae Solenniter Edinburgi Celebrantur, Apud Conventum Gymnasticum Filiorum Aesculapii. Editio Altera Emendata et Aucta. Edinburgh: G. Ramsay for Petrum Hell. 1813. 8vo. 144pp. With the half-title. Old marbled boards, later polished calf backstrip. Gilt title on spine. An untrimmed copy. A few preliminary leaves with a light water stain at lower inner margin.     $750.00 (trade discount allowed)
A scarce work in macaronic verse (Latin mixed with vernacular, in this case English, in Scottish dialect). This 1813 edition is notable for the inclusion of an early poem on the game of golf, "A Song in Praise of Gowfing"  (pp. 138-140).

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