Description
4to, pp. [iv], x, [ii], 111, [3], 17, [1], 18 (engraved music) + frontispiece and 12 plates (all aquatint). Modern quarter calf, marbled boards, red morocco label to spine. Some soiling and light spotting throughout.
The Gentle Shepherd. A Pastoral Comedy.
- Glasgow: Printed by A. Foulis, and sold by D. Allan 1788
- Gaskell 688; ESTC T60190.
£300
Notes
The first illustrated Foulis edition of Ramsay's classic, the first Scottish opera. The plates are by David Allan (1744-1796), sometimes called the 'Scottish Hogarth'.
