Papistry Storm'd; or, The Dingin' Down o' the Cathedral. Ane Poem, in Sax Songs.
Papistry Storm'd; or, The Dingin' Down o' the Cathedral. Ane Poem, in Sax Songs.

Papistry Storm’d; or, The Dingin’ Down o’ the Cathedral. Ane Poem, in Sax Songs.

  • [Tennant, William] 'M.W.T.'
  • Imprentit at Edinbrogh [i.e., Edinburgh]: Oliver and Boyd 1827

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FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. xv, [i], 224. Contemporary half calf, black cloth boards, spine divided by raised bands gilt, compartments tooled centrally in blind, marbled edges. Lightly soiled, a touch of spotting. A little rubbed, binding soiled, label lost.

Notes

The first edition of a mock-heroic epic poem in Scots about the destruction of St Andrews cathedral by poet and linguist William Tennant (1784-1848), best-remembered today for his 1812 poem Anster Fair. It is prefaced by a Scots glossary.

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