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Vols. for 9th-18th reports include list of subscribers: 29th- include list of publications and list of members.
Some vols of the Publications include reports of the society and lists of members.
Avian allegory with an introduction that praises the house of Douglas; composed ca. 1450.
First modern edition of a highly provocative Scottish drama.
The Press and the People is the first full-length study of cheap print in early modern Scotland. It traces the production and distribution of ephemeral publications from the nation's first presses in the early sixteenth century through to the age of Burns in the late eighteenth. It explores the development of the Scottish book trade in general and the production of slight and popular texts in particular. Focusing on the means by which these works reached a wide audience, it illuminates the nature of their circulation in both urban and rural contexts. Specific chapters examine single-sheet imprints such as ballads and gallows speeches, newssheets and advertisements, as well as the little pamp...