The lay of the Scottish fiddle. A poem in five cantos. / Supposed to be written by W---- S----, Esq.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paulding, James Kirke, 1778-1860.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scott, Walter, 1771-1832. Lay of the last minstrel.

Scott, Walter.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xvi, 222 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf ; 17 cm

Edition:

First American, from the fourth Edinburgh edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for James Cawthorn, 1814.

Notes:

"Whittingham and Rowland, Printers, Goswell Street, London."--T.p. verso.

Apparently the first English edition; first published in New York, 1813 (Edinburgh editions a jest); cf. Wegelin (in the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, v. 12, nos. 1-2, Jan.-Apr. 1918, p. 35)

Parody on the "Lay of the last minstrel", a satire on the British at Havre de Grace.

"Notes": p. [125]-222 p.

Publisher's advertisements (2 p.) at end.

OCLC:

3322543