Amusements of leisure hours: or poetical pieces, chiefly in the Scottish dialect: by the late reverend John Skinner; at Longside, Aberdeenshire. Too which is prefixed, a sketch of the author s life, with some remarks on Scottish poetry

Skinner, John

Published by printed by John Muir, Royal Bank Close, and sold by Stuart Cheyne, Edinburgh; by Alexander Brown, Aberdeen; and by the Principal Booksellers in Scotland, Edinburgh, 1809

About this Item

First edition, 12mo, pp. [4], 144; original brown paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; label chipped but without loss of lettering; all else very good to fine. A collected edition of his poems published posthumously. "He could write in Scots, English and Latin with equal skill. Yet the verses for which Skinner was remembered were those of The Reel of Tullochgorum [included here], which no less than Robert Burns described as the best Scots sang I ever saw ." (See abdn [dot]ac[dot]uk.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Amusements of leisure hours: or poetical pieces, chiefly in the Scottish dialect: by the late reverend John Skinner; at Longside, Aberdeenshire. Too which is prefixed, a sketch of the author s life, with some remarks on Scottish poetry
• Publisher: printed by John Muir, Royal Bank Close, and sold by Stuart Cheyne, Edinburgh; by Alexander Brown, Aberdeen; and by the Principal Booksellers in Scotland, Edinburgh
• Publication Date: 1809
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • English Literature
  • Poetry