Claim to fame for the Scottish bard. Name Patrick Renny dated 1760 to right edge of title page. Later blindstamp to front free endpaper.
London/Edinburgh: A. Millar/A. Kincaid, J. Bell, 1759. xlviii, 228 pp. 12mo. ESTC N9244. Second Edition. Period calf, morocco lettering piece. xlviii, 228 pp. 12mo. ESTC N9244.
Wilkie, although known "the Scottish Homer" and praised by Hume, did not find exceeding success in this work and it was not reprinted in his lifetime. Largely known for his Epigoniad (1757) [Item #429, 2nd edition, 1759]. The plates illustrate his poetical renditions of fables. According to the DNB, the book contains "sixteen Fables in iambic tetrameter reminiscent of Gay, with an added pithy and pointed Dialogue between the Author and a Friend. The sixteenth Fable, The Hare and the Partan [i.e. Crab] is a notable exercise in the vernacular of Midlothian." Provenance: Bookplate of John Carre, Esqr. of Nisbet.....