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Poems on Several Occasions . . . A New Edition by [SCOTTISH LITERATURE]. Bruce, Michael - 1796

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Poems on Several Occasions . . . A New Edition by [SCOTTISH LITERATURE]. Bruce, Michael - 1796

Poems on Several Occasions . . . A New Edition

by [SCOTTISH LITERATURE]. Bruce, Michael

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Edinburgh: Printed by John Paterson, 1796, 1796. Third edition. ESTC T144079; NCBEL II, 2021. Fine copy. Uncommon.. 8vo, later dark blue half morocco by MacLehose of Glasgow, marbled paper boards, gilt lettering, t.e.g., others untrimmed. The considerably expanded third edition of the works of Scottish poet Michael Bruce (1746-67), who did not publish a poem in his lifetime. A small selection of his works were compiled by a classmate, John Logan, and published as Poems on Several Occasions in 1770; and for this edition more manuscripts were supplied by his mother. There is an introductory essay on Bruce by William Craig which first appeared in the Scottish literary periodical, The Mirror.

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  • Format/Binding ESTC T144079; NCBEL II, 2021
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  • Edition Third edition
  • Publisher Edinburgh: Printed by John Paterson, 1796
  • Date Published 1796

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by Bruce, Michael

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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.
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