A Perfect Description of the People and Country of Scotland : Reprinted from a Very Scarce Pamphlet Written By James Howel, Gentleman : Animum Rege Hor. Epist.

Howell / James Howell

Published by London : Printed for J. S. 1649, Reprinted for T. And J. Egerton, Whitehall, J. Deighton, Holborn and C. S. Rann, Oxford 1788 / Reprint / FBRE, Ltd., Clean and Unmarked Text

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Bound / Flex Cover Modern undated reprint. 36 pages. Paper / Soft cover reprint edition in very good or better condition, slight wear to edges. Overall good copy of this scarce title. Excellent read. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand. Or would make a great gift for the fan / reader in your life. Preface excerpt: It may appear somewhat singular, that an editor, who professes he bears no enmity to the Scotts, should be the first to republish what contains so much severity of satire. This seeming paradox will vanish, when w reflect for a moment on the state of Scotland at the period when this pamphlet was written, and compare it with the present. Its antient barbarism can no longer be produced as an argument fo reproach, but on teh contrary, must ever convince the most malevolent, that its present cultivated state sets it far above the reach of prejudice. So well persuaded was mr. Addision of the utility of satire, when properly applied, that he was favorured the world with his opinion on the subject, in the following words: Among the writers of antiquity, says he, there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which they lived, than those who have employed themselves in satire, under what dress soever it may appeara, as there are no other authors whose province it is to enter so directly into the ways of men, and set their miscarriages in so strong a light. If we look into manners of more remote ages, we discover nature in her simplicity, and the more we come downward towards our own time, may boserve her hiding.

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• Title: A Perfect Description of the People and Country of Scotland : Reprinted from a Very Scarce Pamphlet Written By James Howel, Gentleman : Animum Rege Hor. Epist.
• Publisher: London : Printed for J. S. 1649, Reprinted for T. And J. Egerton, Whitehall, J. Deighton, Holborn and C. S. Rann, Oxford 1788 / Reprint / FBRE, Ltd., Clean and Unmarked Text
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Book Type: Book