The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries ...
Read More
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT154560A collection of pamphlets previously issued separately by Ramsay. The collection was probably first published in 1719 without a collective titlepage and subsequently re-issued in April? 1720 with prefatory material and a collective titlepage but little atEdinburgh: printed for the author, 1720.; 8
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
I. Vercruffe. Very Good. A scarce collection of poetical works by the poet and writer of the late seventeenth and eighteenth century, Allan Ramsay. This first edition is illustrated with portrait of the author to the frontispiece. Incomplete. One volume only, originally a two volume set. ESTC no. T42590 A scarce volume. Printed by Thomas Ruddiman for the Author. With an illustrated frontispiece. An alphabetical list of subscribers towards the front of the volume, as in accordance with the ESTC record. The poem featured in this volume includes: The Morning Interview, Elegy of Maggy Johnston, Elegy on John Cowper, Elegy on Lucky Wood, Lucky Spence's last Advice, Tartana or the Plaid, Scots Songs, Edinburgh Address to the Country, Christ's Kirk on the Green, The Scriblers Lash'd, Content, Richy and Sandy, Familiar Epistles, Patie and Roger, Edinburgh's Salutation, Wealth or the Woody, The Prospect of Plenty, The Rise and Fall of Stocks, Patie and Pegie, The Musick Club, On the Great Eclipse of the Sun, The Gentleman's Qualifications, On Wit, On Friendship, Keitha et al. Allan Ramsay was a Scottish poet, part of the early Enlightenment period in Edinburgh. Contributing to the early naturalistic writing of the 18th century, Ramsay has been recognised by the city of Edinburgh, with his name upon the Scott Monument in the heart of the city. The first edition of Ramsay's work showcases the literary talents of this important Scottish poet. In a full calf binding. Externally rubbed with loss to the head and tail of the spine. Heavy rubbing to the extremities, with rubbing to the front and rear joints. Scratches to the front and rear boards. The front and rear hinges are lightly strained, with light rubbing to the front and rear pastedowns. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages are generally clean with the odd handling mark. Loss to the tail of page 65. Very Good.