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The poems of the Sempills of Beltrees : now first collected, with notes and biographical notices of their lives / by James Paterson.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sempill, James, Sir, 1566-1625.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sempill family.
- Penn Provenance:
- Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- civ, 142 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Thomas George Stevenson, MDCCCXLIX [1849]
- Contents:
- The preface
- Genealogical account of the Sempills of Beltrees
- Epitaphs on Sir James and Robert Sempill
- The pack-mans paternoster, poem by Sir James Sempill
- Poems by Robert Sempill
- Poems by Francis Sempill
- Notes
- Appendix.
- Notes:
- "Impression strictly limited to two hundred and fifty copies."
- The Packman's paternoster, by Sir James Sempill, has reproduction of the original title page: "A pick-tooth for the pope: or, The pack-mans pater noster. Set down in a dialogue betwixt a packman and a priest. Tr. out of Dutch by S.I.S. and newly augm. and enl. by his son R.S. ... Edinburgh, Printed for Andrew Anderson, anno 1669."
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Robert Hoe (1839-1909) on front pastedown.
- OCLC:
- 3154622
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