The Ever Green, being a collection of Scots Poems, Wrote by the Ingenious before 1600. Vol I. Published published by Allan Ramsay

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First of 2 volumes in 12mo. ff. [2] (blank), pp. xii, 272, ff. [2] (blank). Calf. Gilded spine on 5 bars, red lettering panel. Includes printer's device on title page, head- and tailpieces, and engraved initials. In English and Scottish. Bookplates of Fullerton of Carstairs and John Charles Hardy. Contains the ballad imitation ‘Hardyknute: a Fragment,’ as composed by Elizabeth Halket (1677-1727) and circulated by her brother-in-law Sir John Hope Bruce. ‘Hardyknute’ was first printed on a single duodecimo leaf in 1719 (D.F. Foxon, English Verse, 1701-1750, W 213, known in only three copies) as an ancient poem discovered in a vault at Dumferline by Lady Wardlaw. The poem was recognized as a skilful pastiche by Lady Wardlaw herself in Bishop Percy’s Reliques of ancient English poetry, consisting of old heroic ballads, songs, and other pieces of our earlier poets (London, 1765, Bib# 4103138/Fr# 484). In the present volume, Ramsay also included poems by himself and other modern authors as ‘ancient,’ and altered others. See also ESTC, T143032. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.