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DOUGLAS, Alexander. Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect..

Cupar-fife. Printed by R. Tullis, for the Author, 1806. First Edition.
8vo. xx, 203pp, [1]. Uncut in contemporary red half-morocco over marbled boards, gilt. Rubbed, with loss to head of spine. Neat twentieth-century German ink-stamp to FFEP.
A Burnsian imitator, weaver-poet Alexander Douglas (1772-1821) borrowed the Scottish Bard's title for this collection of Fife dialect verse. A short biography and substantial subscriber's list preface the work.
Not in Jackson. Johnson 277.
£ 150.00 Antiquates Ref: 31804