An Account of the Last Words of Christian Kerr.; Who died at Edinburgh, the 4th of Feb. 1702, in the 11th year of her age

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Falkirk: Printed and Sold by Daniel Reid, 1781. 16pp., pot 8vo. [Bound with] [MACNEILL, HECTOR]. Scotland’s Skaith; or, the History o’ Will & Jean: Owre True a Tale. Stirling: Printed by C. Randall. And sold by P. Hill and A. Guthrie, Edinburgh; - Brash & Reid. . . Morison and Son Perth, 1795. 12pp., 12mo. [And] MURRAY, JAMES. Sermons to Asses. Paisley: Printed by Neilson & Weir, for Robert Smith, Bookseller, 1800, 72pp., 12mo. Also included in the volume are two poetical chapbooks published in Stirling by W. Macnie in 1826, some odd numbers of the Paisley Repository, circa 1800, an attractive Glasgow New Pictorial Bible, which notwithstanding the dates on the spine of the binding I suggest is circa 1840, and some nineteenth century sermons. Mid-nineteenth century morocco-backed cloth by Henderson and Bisset, Edinburgh, spine lettered “Chap Books 1781-1826.” First published in 1702, Deans’s sad little pamphlet went through at least a dozen subsequent editions before this one, which is recorded in a single copy at Glasgow. Scotland’s Skaith was first published in 1795 and became an immediate sensation. In Stirling alone there seem to have been several editions previous to this one, with at least a sixth, eighth, and ninth recorded, though not this one, stated to be the tenth. Sermons to Asses is the stated sixth edition. The poetical chapbooks, all three printed in Stirling by W. Macnie, are The bonny lass of Banaphie, 1826; Sair sair was my heart [and four other titles], 1826; and The Haughs of Crumdel [no date but certainly of the same period].

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