Scoticisms, arranged in alphabetical order, designed to correct improprieties of speech and writing

by James Beattie

$650 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Edinburgh & London: printed for William Creech and T. Cadell, 1787. First published edition, 8vo, pp. 4 , 121; a number of contemporary annotations in ink; old sheep neatly rebacked; good copy. Bookplate of Allan Briggs. In the year 1779, Beattie published for the use of his class a list of Scoticisms, which today is known only in a single copy. From the advertisement: The former edition being all given away, for none of the copies were exposed to sale, I

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