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18TH-CENTURY BOOKS
Folded,
Sealed, & Sent
from Edinburgh
to New Galloway
Edinburgh (Scotland). Town Council. Begins, “Right Honourable, and very Loving Friends and Neighbours...Whereas the Commissioners of Burrows...did appoint their next general Convention to be holden at the said Burgh of Edinburgh, upon the first Tuesday of July next, 1723 years....” [Edinburgh, 1723]. Folio (31 cm, 12.4"). 4 pp.
The paper bears the seal of Edinburgh in red wax, with one half of the broken seal on either end.
• Not in ESTC. Tipped onto a leaf of 19th-century paper, now in a Mylar folder. Slightly tattered, with a few small holes around margins and occasionally in text. Tears along folds to second leaf partially repaired some time ago, in one area with archival tissue and in three other places with paper, with text imperfectly aligned along one main fold and a few letters obscured along the other.
For
Distribution in
Scotland?
— Scarce
BROADSIDE(England
— Party Politics).
Broadside. Begins: “Queries. Whether any Parliament ever did better than
this has done...” [Edinburgh?]: J.M., 1710. Folio (30.8 cm, 12.1"). [2]
pp.
Searches
of ESTC, OCLC, RLIN, and NUC
Pre-1956 locate only two copies—one in Scotland,
one in England.
• ESTC T168050. Now in a Mylar folder; edges slightly ragged, repair at lower inner margin just touching letters on one side, small holes in lower center with loss of a few letters. Some letters in header cut off at top due to printer’s error. Tipped onto a blank leaf bearing a watermark of 1826.
“
We Are Now
Got through this
Heap
of Scandal ”(England
— Politics & Religion).
A letter to the author of the Memorial of the State of England,
answer’d paragraph by paragraph. London, 1706. 8vo (20.5 cm, 8.1"). 44 pp.
• ESTC N3245. Recent, slate-grey light boards. Title-page with numeric stamp and with number inked in lower margin by an early hand. Edges untrimmed; some light staining.
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