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Drama, Poetry, Ballad operas, Librettos, English drama, Scottish authorsTimes
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Added steel-engraved t.p. with bust portrait of Allan Ramsay.
T.p. and text printed within thin black rule border.
Includes "Life of the Author": p. [iii]-xvi.
Steel engraved plates are signed as engraved by W. Forrest after D. Allan. All are with captions.
Includes "A Glossary or explanation of Scottish words which are rarely or never found in modern English writings.": p. [155]-175.
Publisher's advertisement on p. [1] at end.
MASS copy 1: Bound in blue cord-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind; a.e.g. Upper cover blocked in gold and lower cover in blind with illustration of a seated shepherd playing a horn, with signature: "RV". With pale orange-cream endpapers. With binder's ticket: "Bound by John Gray Edinburgh". With ownership stencil: "Mr. John Watson.".
MASS copy 2: Bound in quarter maroon morocco and Mauchline ware boards; a.e.g. Upper cover with a "Chromolithograph Ware" finish [Cf. Trachtenberg, David and Thomas Keith. Mauchline ware, 2002.], with a hand-painted scene entitled "Loch Katrine". Lower cover with "Macbeth" Tartan. Board edges painted in gold. Spine tooled in gold. With cream glazed endpapers. With plates bound in different locations than in copy 1.
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