Exploits and Anecdotes of The Scottish Gypsies
Title: Exploits and Anecdotes of The Scottish Gypsies - With Traits of their origin, character and manners
Author: William Chambers
Publisher: William Brown, Edinburgh
Date: 1886
Hardback - Reprint of 1821 edition. 68 pp. Frontispiece. One of 300 printed
Synopsis
This edition is a reprint of the original 1821 edition and published in a run of 100 copies on fine paper and signed and 300 on common paper.
The work describes itself as a collection of anecdotes:
Chapter I: Anecdotes of Jean Gordon, the original of the character of Meg Merrilies.
Chapter II: Anecdotes of the Roxburghshire Gypsies, etc.
Chapter III: Curious Anecdotes of the Selkirkshire Gypsies
Chapter IV: Interesting anecdotes of the Midlothian and Peebleshire Gypsies
Chapter V: Remarkable anecdotes and curious traits of the character of Billy Marshall, a Gypsey Chief
Condition Notes
An excellent copy of this rare book is in excellent condition with bright gilt titles to clean cover boards and bright and clean pages throughout. Attached to spare last page are 3 newspaper column cuttings(not dated but appear to be late Victorian) about Scottish Gypsies.
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