PREFACE BY DAVID LAING - A Compendious Book of Psalms and Spiritual Songs Commonly Known As 'the Gude and Godlie Ballates'

Edinburgh, W Patterson. 1868. Hardcover. Reprinted from the edition of 1578. A classic of early Scots poetry. Purple cloth worn and marked, sunned to the spine, the paste-on paper title label almost rubbed to illegibility, ink name to the ffep dated 1875, very occasional foxing, generally clean, tight and sound, good. Good.

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