Author: MURRAY (Thomas):
Title: The Literary History of Galloway. Second Edition.
Description: Edinburgh: Printed for Waugh and Innes..., 1832. Large 8vo, 225 x 135 mms., pp. vii [viii blank], 348, uncut, neat list of contents in 20th century hand tipped in before title-page, recently rebound in half calf, binder's cloth, red morocco label, spine ornaments in blind. A very good to fine copy. Thomas Murray (1792 - 1872) began his career as a minister in the Church of Scotland and soon turned his attention to literary pursuits. The Literary History of Galloway was first published in 1822, and this second edition has been extensively revised: "The extraneous matter, which the original work embraced, has been omitted; much extravagance, in regard both to sentiment and diction, has been corrected; and the whole has undergone a thorough revisal. Nor is this all: Nineteen new articles, of which sixteen are altogether original, have been added; and the present volume may be considered rather as a new work than as the republication of one already before the world." This second edition was reviewed in The Christian Pioneer in 1833: "It displays great research and very accurate information; is written in a very perspicuous style, and with great felicity of expression; and is, on the whole, one of the most entertaining biographical volumes we have ever met with."

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