£200
FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. [iv], 360. Contemporary sheep. Somewhat browned and foxed, a marginal oil-stain to a few gatherings, repair to blank area at head of title-page. Sometime rebacked in a different shade, green morocco label, endpapers renewed, boards rubbed and scratched. Long note referencing Chamber’s Biographical Dictionary to front blank, ownership inscription of Hubert G. Norman to front flyleaf, older inscription washed from title-page.
The first, posthumous, printing of these poems by the Jacobite army officer Alexander Robertson of Struan (c.1670-1749). 'A significant part of Struan's reputation rests on his poetry... Although he writes a great deal of good, dutiful verse in the cavalier mode, following Carew and others and including a decided bias towards a poetry of retreat (not surprising given his place of residence and aversion to creditors), in his political poetry Struan shows an interesting bifurcation between his language and his concepts' (ODNB).
