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Twelve nineteenth-century pamphlets on various subjects mainly religious.
18273973Perth London Elgin Boston Dundee: Various imprints 1827. 12 pamphlets 12mo et infra. Bound together in contemporary half calf marbled boards spine divided by gilt rules red morocco label ’Pamphlets’ and gilt numbering direct ’LXIX’. Variable spotting and soiling the plates in the second pamphlet loosening. Binding rubbed and worn spine chipped at ends front joint nearly split. Manuscript table of contents to front flyleaf. A bound volume of mostly rare miscellaneous pamphlets mostly from the middle of the 19th century mostly religious or improving and mostly Scottish - though each of these with unusual exceptions - four of them unrecorded and at least two of them presentation copies. The full contents are: 1. Wordsworth Charles. Euodias and Syntyche. The Scottish Church in its Relations Past and Present to the Church of England. Perth: Printed and sold by Robert Whittet 1869. pp. 46 2. Inscription cropped from title-page that ended 'from the Author'. 2. The Life of a Baby. A Strictly Authentic History. Second edition. London: Seeley Jackson and Halliday 1855. iii-47 1 frontispiece and 3 plates. Not found in Library Hub or OCLC the latter finding a third edition in a single copy in Indiana. 3. Guide to the Ruins of Elgin Cathedral. To which is added the Story of Marjory Gilzean mother of General Anderson. Sixth edition. Elgin: Printed at the Courant Office for John Smith 1865. pp. 60 2 frontispiece and 2 plates. This edition found in NLS and Aberdeen only in Library Hub. 4. Bible Teachings at a Mothers' Meeting. By a Minister's Wife. London: The Book Society. pp. 40 2 ads. Title-page inscribed 'Mrs Barclay with Mr & Mrs Milne's kind regards' and the author identified in a different hand as 'Mrs John Milne'. Not found in Library Hub or Worldcat. 5. Never Too Late to Learn. Scotticisms Corrected. London: John Farquhar Shaw 1855. pp. 64. 6. Duffield Jr. George. The Pastor and Inquirer. Boston: Published by the American Tract Society 1848. pp. 48. Title-page with large pencil notes. One copy only in OCLC Pitts Theological. 7. Robertson Frederick Lockhart ed. Hymns and Poems for the Sabbath School and the Fireside. Glasgow: Thomas Murray & Son 1860. pp. 31 1. Not found in Library Hub or OCLC. 8. Shean James Carolina. Masquerades of St. Johnstown Edinburgh Glasgow &c. By Philoxenus. Printed for the Author 1827. pp. 37 1. Title-page inscribed with author's name and other information in an early hand. Satirical verse found in NLS only in Library Hub and OCLC. 9. The Institutions of Laforce Dordogne France. London: James Nisbet and Co. 1865. pp. vii i 84. Aberdeen & Edinburgh only in Library Hub; OCLC indicates a microform was made from the BnF copy. 10. Proposed Training Ship for the Tay. Report of a Public Meeting held in Dundee 25th March 1869. Dundee: Printed at the Dundee Advertiser Office 1869. pp. 21 1. Not located in Library Hub or OCLC. 11. An Old Perthshire Ballad Entitled the House on the Green drop-head title. 1869. pp. 8. Library Hub and OCLC together locate only a c. 1980 photocopy at the NLS and an original copy in the Cleveland Public Library. 12. Thomson W. Burns. The City Arabs. London: James Nisbet & Co. 1868. pp. 31 1. Inscription 'Sheriff Murray' to title-page. [Various imprints] hardcover
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