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Edinburgh / Edinburgh / London: Archibald & Co.; Manners & Miller; John Murray. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. A nice-looking exemplar of the 1796 true First Edition, this being an early reprint, printed by D. Ramsay & Son for two Edinburgh, Scotland-based and a London publisher. Preface to that edition printed here. The publisher of the present work has added several poems provided by his mother. Added to this volume is a long selection of poems by John Struthers, in the Third Edition, corrected and enlarged state. Short octavo hardcover format, bound in half calf, marbled boards, spine divided by double gilt rules, lettered in gilt. Some foxing. Binding somewhat rubbed, particularly to spine. Ink ownership inscription of Mrs. Stedman to title-page. The short-lived Scottish poet of Lochleven, Michael Bruce (1746-1767), is valuable for reprinting from manuscripts, several recovered poems from his mother and his friend Logan but who turned out to… Read More

Edinburgh: Printed by John Paterson, 1796. 8vo, pp. xxii, [ii], 175, [1]. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine divided by double gilt rules, lettered in gilt. Some foxing. Binding somewhat rubbed, particularly to spine. Ink ownership inscription of Mrs Stedman to title-page. The fourth edition collecting the work of the short-lived ‘poet of Lochleven’, Michael Bruce (1746-1767). Originally edited and seen through the press by Bruce’s schoolfriend, John Logan in 1770, this edition reprints that selection along with several others from manuscripts recovered from Logan by Bruce’s family. Logan had proven duplicitous by appropriating several of Bruce’s works as his own, most notably Ode to A Cuckoo, published by Logan under his name in 1781, and here restored to the pantheon of Bruce’s compositions. ESTC T144079.