Select Works of Gawin Douglass, Bishop of Dunkeld. Containing Memoirs of the Author, The Palice of Honour, Prologues to the Æneid, and A Glossary of Obsolete Words; to which is added, an Old Poem, Author unknown. [Bound with:] The Works of James I, King of Scotlands. Containing Yjr King’s Quair, Christis Kirk of The Grene, and Peblis to The Play.

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2 vols. bound as 1, 12mo, pp. [iv], 156, [viii], iv, 121, [1] + frontispiece to each vol. and 1 engraved title-page. Half-titles discarded. Contemporary half red roan, marbled boards, spine divided by gilt rolls and rules and lettered in gilt direct. Some scattered spotting, particularly to plates, first two leaves torn to edge and sometime repaired Armorial bookplate of William Lindsay to pastedown, later ownership inscriptions of Euphemia Baillie, Dundee, and Sydney Smith.