The Edinburgh review, or critical journal. Nos. XXVI - XXIX

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh; Constable, Hunter, Park, & Hunter, London; and Wogan & Cumming, Dublin, 1809. 4 volumes covering the whole of the year 1809, including: volume XXVI (January-March); volume XXVII (April-June); volume XXVIII (July-September); and, volume XXIX (October-December), all in original stiff blue printed paper wrappers, cream paper shelfbacks, printed paper labels on spines; a number of small defects here and there, but on the whole very good, sound, and clean. Ownership signature at the top of 3 front wrappers of Thomas Scott, Esq., Craiglockheart. Includes, among other reviews, those of Charles Wilkins's A Grammar of the Sanskrita Language; Thomas Campbell's Gertrude of Wyoming; W. Spence's Agriculture the Source of Wealth for Britain; Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language; Robert Ker Porter's Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden; Thomas Taylor's Works of Plato; Maria Edgeworth's Tales of a Fashionable Life; and the American Joel Barlow's The Columbiad.