SKINNER, Rev. John – Amusements of Leisure Hours: Or Poetical Pieces, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect: By the Late Reverend John Skinner; At Longside, Aberdeenshire. To Which is Prefixed, a Sketch of the Author’s Life, with Some Remarks on Scottish Poetry

SKINNER, Rev. John. Amusements of Leisure Hours: Or Poetical Pieces, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect: By the Late Reverend John Skinner; At Longside, Aberdeenshire. To Which is Prefixed, a Sketch of the Author's Life, with Some Remarks on Scottish Poetry.

Edinburgh. Printed By John Moir...and Sold By Stuart Cheyne...by Alexander Brown, 1809. First edition.

8vo. 144pp. Original publisher's paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed, joints cracked, loss to spine and bumped corners. Ink inscription to title, occasional foxing.

John Skinner (1721–1807), Scottish Episcopalian Minister and historian. A friend and correspondent of Robert Burns, who admired Skinner's dialect poetry and included his famous song 'Tullochgorum' in the second volume of The Scots Musical Museum (Edinburgh, 1788). Two complimentary letters from Burns to Skinner were first published here.

Jackson p.327.

£ 125.00 Antiquates Ref: 12051