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SCOTLAND
/ SCOTS
For
Distribution in
Scotland
— Scarce
BROADSIDE
(D—ned
Rare; Coldly Furious).
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.
WHO
Gets the BEER
& Why?(Dunsinnan
vs. Ramsay). Broadside.
Begins: “Information for William Nairn of Dunsinnan, commissar clerk of
Edinburgh, against Mr. David Ramsay writer to the signet....”[Edinburgh,
ca. 1710]. Folio (31.2 cm, 12.35"). [2] pp.
This
is a scarce document, with no copies listed by ESTC, RLIN, OCLC, or NUC
Pre-1956.
• In good clean condition, tipped onto a leaf of 19th-century paper; now in a Mylar folder.
Folded,
Sealed,
& Sent
from EDINBURGH
to NEW
GALLOWAYEdinburgh (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.
Whoa! Hold on There! Just One Darn Minute! Episcopal Church in Scotland. The declinator and protestation of the archbishops and bishops, of the Church of Scotland, and others their adherents within that kingdome, against the pretended generall Assembly holden at Glasgow Novemb. 21. 1638. London: Pr. by John Ravvorth, for George Thomason & Octavian Pullen,, 1639. Small 4to. [1] f., 33, [1 (blank)] pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. This work appeared with three different title-pages and there are even internal differences. In this copy the setting of quire B has line B3v with “Deliberations” spelled with the capital letter “D.”
• STC (rev ed.) 22058; ESTC S116980. Removed from a nonce volume and in modern wrappers. First and last pages dust-soiled; tea (?) stain to last leaf. Ex-library with the not unattractive stamp of the Union Theological Seminary on the verso of the title and in the bottom margin of the last text page. Blank area of foremargin of B4 torn with loss. In modern wrappers. (21000)
“All the World Knows There is Nothing on Earth to be Compared to a Highland Chief”Ferrier, Susan Edmonstone. Destiny; or, the chief's daughter. London: Richard Bentley; Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute; Dublin: J. Cumming, 1841. 8vo (17 cm, 6.75"). Frontis., add. engr. t.-p., [4], 428 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Provenance: Series title-page with inked inscription of E. Jane Campbell, Kildalloig, dated 184[?].
• NCBEL, III, 720. On Ferrier, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Contemporary half dark blue calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped red leather title-label and gilt-decorated bands; paper lightly scuffed at sides and chipped at board edges, extremities with minor rubbing. All edges marbled to match the marbled paper of the boards. Front pastedown with small 19th-century ticket of Edinburgh binder, and with traces of paper adhesions. A few leaves with small chip from lower margin. Frontispiece and added engraved title-page with limited foxing/offsetting; pages otherwise clean. (29868)
Both
Pieces inScots
Dialect VerseForbes, William. Dominie deposed, with
the sequel.... To which is added, Maggy Johnston's elegy. Glasgow: Pr. for the
booksellers, n.d. (ca. 1848). 12mo. 24 pp.
• Forges was "late schoolmaster at Petercoulter." Woodcut on the chapbook's title-page is of a woman seated outside a cottage with a basket in her lap. • Not in NSTC. Removed from a bound volume. Good++ condition. (8419)
For
more CHAPBOOKS, click here.
A
Great Series of Song Titles . . . Four favourite comic songs. Glasgow: Pr. for the booksellers, [ca. 1825?].
12mo. 8 pp. 
“The Cork Leg and Steam Arm. / The Great Sea Snake. / The Sailor's Consolation. /
The Wonderful Nose” — a woodcut vignette shows a young man dancing with one arm raised and “[No.] 28” printed at
the foot.
• Not in NSTC. Removed from a nonce volume. Pages age-toned, otherwise clean. (16763)
“PRACTICE”
for a ScotsWomen’s
Culinary
SchoolFrazer, Mrs. The practice of cookery, pastry, and confectionary; in three parts...the fifth edition, improved and enlarged. Edinburgh: Peter Hill (pr. by Alex. Smellie), 1806. 12mo (18.3 cm, 7.2"). [8], 304 pp.; 2 plts.
Click the two leftmost images, above, for enlargements. 
• Early 19th-century edition of a popular Scottish cookbook, originally printed in 1791. The inspiration for this work came from Cookery and Pastry by Susanna Maciver, whom Mrs. Frazer had worked with and eventually succeeded as head of a culinary school for women in Edinburgh. The liquid quantities are given in both Scottish and English measures, with a note that the “butter weight . . . is rated at twenty-two ounces to the pound.” The first plate shows a sample table layout featuring fish, brown soup, boiled fowls, haricot of mutton, ducks ragoo’d, preserved apples, and almond pudding; the second plate illustrates how to truss hares, chickens, pheasants, turkeys, and other game for roasting and boiling.
• Bitting 166–67; Cagle, A Matter of Taste, 691 (for fourth ed.). Contemporary mottled sheep, recently rebacked in complementary fashion, preserving the original gilt-stamped leather spine label; sides and edges worn, with abrasions. Title-page with stray small ink markings; half-title and title-page with outer edges darkened. A few leaves with spots of light staining; two lower corners torn away, and a number of others dog-eared. Pages mostly clean — this is overall an attractive copy.
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