Author: Ramsay, Allan.
Title: The Gentle Shepherd, a Pastoral Comedy.
Description: Glasgow: Printed by A. Foulis, 1788. 0. Hardcover. Large quarto. [ii], x, [ii], 111, 17, 18pp. pi2, a2, b4, A4-O4, AA2-EE2. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked. With frontispiece portrait, 12 plates and 18 pages of music in uncolored aquatint by the Scottish artist, engraver, plate-publisher and bookseller, David Allan. This copy is extra-illustrated with 3 additional plates. First illustrated edition of The Gentle Shepherd. Gaskell 688; Abbey, Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography 244; Lewine, Bibliography of 18th Century Art & Illustrated Books, p. 444; Rothschild 1732. From the library of Chalmers Hadley. Good.

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