GREATLY ADMIRED BY ROBERT BURNS
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.
Edinbugh.
Printed By John Moir...and Sold By Stuart Cheyne...by Alexander Brown, 1809.
First Edition.
12mo in 6s.
164pp. Uncut in original publisher's drab boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Rubbed, with some cracking to joints and a little loss to spine. Ink inscription to head of title.
John Skinner (1721–1807), Scottish Episcopalian Minister at Longside, Aberdeen 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: 31805
