An essay of the nature and actions of the subterranean (and, for the most part) invisible people heretofoir going under the name of elves, faunes and fairies, or the lyke : among the low-country Scots, as they are described by those who have the second sight... / collected by a circumspect inquirer residing among the Scottish-Irish in Scotland ; with an appendix, consisting of extracts from a treatise on second sight, by Theophilus Insulanus.
1815
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Title
An essay of the nature and actions of the subterranean (and, for the most part) invisible people heretofoir going under the name of elves, faunes and fairies, or the lyke : among the low-country Scots, as they are described by those who have the second sight... / collected by a circumspect inquirer residing among the Scottish-Irish in Scotland ; with an appendix, consisting of extracts from a treatise on second sight, by Theophilus Insulanus.
Published
Edinburgh : Reprinted by James Ballantyne & Co., for Longman, Rees, Orme, & Brown, London, 1815.
Description
vi, 97 p. ; 26 cm
Associated name
Note
Author's name from added title page and p. [v]
"100 copies only printed"--Verso title page
"Probably the original printed edition."--R. Kirk. Secret commonwealth; ed. by A. Lang, 1893., p. x; first edition according to NCBEL, cited below.
Added title page, reproduction of ms. title dated 1691, reads: Secret commonwealth; or, A treatise displayeing the chiefe curiosities as they are in use among diverse of the people of Scotland to this day ... / by Mr. Robert Kirk ...
"This curious tract ... is printed literally from a manuscript copy preserved in the Advocate's Library"--P. [v]
This reprint has been ascribed to Sir Walter Scott and to Robert Jamieson.
With appendix entitled "Extracts from a treatise on the second sight, dreams, apparitions, &c. / by Theophilus Insulanus" [pseud. of Donald MacLeod], p. [47]-97.
"100 copies only printed"--Verso title page
"Probably the original printed edition."--R. Kirk. Secret commonwealth; ed. by A. Lang, 1893., p. x; first edition according to NCBEL, cited below.
Added title page, reproduction of ms. title dated 1691, reads: Secret commonwealth; or, A treatise displayeing the chiefe curiosities as they are in use among diverse of the people of Scotland to this day ... / by Mr. Robert Kirk ...
"This curious tract ... is printed literally from a manuscript copy preserved in the Advocate's Library"--P. [v]
This reprint has been ascribed to Sir Walter Scott and to Robert Jamieson.
With appendix entitled "Extracts from a treatise on the second sight, dreams, apparitions, &c. / by Theophilus Insulanus" [pseud. of Donald MacLeod], p. [47]-97.
Cited/described in
NCBEL, II, 2058
cf. Caillet, A.L. Sciences psychiques, II, p. 366, no. 5800
cf. Caillet, A.L. Sciences psychiques, II, p. 366, no. 5800
Includes
Macleod, Donald, 1729?-1781. Treatise on the Second sight, dreams and apparitions. Selections.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- Scotland.
Call number
GR144 .K4 1815 Cage
Folger-specific note
Bookplate (motto: Fax mentis honestae gloria): Castlecraig Library. Armorial bookplate: C.H. Wilkinson. Extensive pencil annotations inside front cover.
Folger accession
201573