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BUCHAN, David Stewart Erskine, Earl of, Essays on the lives and writings of Fletcher of Saltoun and the poet Thomson: biographical, critical, and political. With some pieces of Thomson’s never before published. By D.S. Earl of Buchan. London : printed for J. Debrett, 1792.

8vo, pp. viii, xxxix, [1],280. Wants portrait. Nineteenth-century blue half calf, spine gilt (now rubbed and faded).

First edition of these essays in which Buchan praised the ancient Scottish constitution and criticized the corruptions he detected in the present British constitution.

£150.00 (equal to approx. US$237.25* or €185.92* for 19 May 2012)

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