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Scottish treasure trove

1979
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"Fifty years ago , the novelist George Blake made a collection of what he considered the most interesting historical extracts and literary quotations about Scotland. An anthology of prose and verse, it includes materials such as Alexander Carlye's description of Bonny Prince Charlie's freckles, an account of Scotland's first zoo, the original stories of Macbeth and Alexander Selkirk, many pieces on eating and drinking habits, the Canadian Boat Song, Dr Johnson on Scotch broth and doggerel verse by Zachary Boyd and McGonagall."
Main title:
Scottish treasure trove / selected and introduced by George Blake.
Author:
Edition:
(1st ed. reprinted) / with a foreword by Russell Hunter.
Imprint:
Glasgow : Molendinar Press, 1979.
Collation:
192 pages ; 16 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London : Newnes, 1928.Index.
ISBN:
09040023069780904002300
Dewey class:
941.1008941.1008828.91808.8820.9828.08
Local class:
828.008SH1/V4914.11
Language:
English
Index terms:
Scotland, to 1927AnthologiesQUOTATIONSSCOTLAND
BRN:
50306
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