12mo. [10], iii, [1], 112, [5], 116-121pp, [1]. With two engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-tooled tree-calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Extremities rubbed. Inked ownership inscription of C. Tytler to verso of front blank fly-leaf.

The complete poetical works of King James I (1394-1437); the first volume of what was to become a series of early Scottish verse collections edited by Perth-born bookseller and publisher Robert Morison (1722- 1791), which was followed by The select works of Gawin Douglass (1787) and Select poems of Wil. Dunbar (1788). The collection includes 'Christis Kirk of the Grene', 'Peblis to the Play', and arguably the king's most highly regarded piece 'The Kings Quair'. Composed during his lengthy English captivity, the latter is a love poem which was much circulated in manuscript versions but not printed until the eighteenth-century in a collection edited by William Tytler (Poetical remains. London, 1783).