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First printing of Margaret Turner's parallel text. Full tree calf with sympathetic respine. Gilt-stamped crest ('Sutherland Copy' in pencil on the pastedown) and gilt border to boards, gilt ruling, lettering and devices to spine. Wear to edges and patches of damage to calf. Small previous owner's label to pastedown. Small tear at p. viii with occasional foxing. Ramsay's popular ballad opera with songs accompanying the various scenes. Margaret Turner's English translation beside the original Scots. Small bookplate to endpapers of J. O. Edwards. 8vo. Seller Inventory # 74087
Title: The Gentle Shepherd, A Scotch Pastoral.
Publisher: Printed for the author by T. Bensley and sold by G. Nicol and Mrs Turner1790, London
Publication Date: 1790
Binding: Full Tree Calf
Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition Thus.