Ramsay (Allan) Poems, first collected edition, eighth issue, woodcut initials, previous owner's ink signature to title, spotting and staining, several ff. with marginal loss not affecting text, several tears, holes and paper defects, one or two affecting text, some with neat repairs, previous owner's pencil notes to final pastedown, lacking free endpapers, contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, [Foxon pp.659-660; Kress 3279], 8vo, Edinburgh, for the Author, 1720 [but 1721].*** Rare at auction. Previously issued as individual poems, Foxon believes that this collection was probably first published in 1719 without a collective title-page and was subsequently re-issued in early 1720 with the collective title-page and some preliminary text. "Later poems were added as they were printed, and an attempt was made to give continuous pagination to the volume ... the result is that copies vary in their constituent parts." (Foxon). This copy is the version that ends with a glossary and includes 1721 reprints. As such Foxon lists this as being the eighth issue.