£200
FIRST EDITION, 12mo, pp. [ii], v, [i], 324. Later half maroon roan, purple textured cloth boards, spine divided by double gilt rules, lettered in gilt, other compartments with central thistle tool in gilt, edges sprinkled red. Some foxing, repair to blank margin of title-page where ownership inscription was rubbed away. Binding a touch rubbed to extremities. Remnants of ink ownership inscription to title-page, a few pencil notes to rear pastedown.
The scarce first edition of this gathering of 'Anecdotes, Bon Mots, Jests, Puns, and Droll Stories... which it is hoped will show that the Scots are possessed of some wit, both in spirit and substance' as the editor and publisher David Webster notes in his preface. He explains that this is a 'miscellany not ill suited to its title, "a haggis," which to our northern palates, is a very agreeable dish, although the materials of which it is composed, are like old chaos, jumbled together without order or regularity'.
Library Hub and OCLC only note eleven copies in British and US institutions.
