Highlands

1773 · réf. AQ35986 — Edinburgh: s.n. 1773. 2 18pp. Modern green cloth calf lettering piece. A trifle dusty. The second edition published anonymously of a short tract addressing the growing avarice of Highland landlords and the resulting mass migration of Highlanders to England and the English colonies. Dedicated to English Lieutenant-General Sir James Adolphus Oughton 1720-1780 'who has been pleased to discover a particular Attachment to the Highlands of Scotland' the work presents a picture of a discontented nation: 'their lands are rented at such a price and raised to such a pitch that they plainly see it is impossible to support the burden laid upon them.the spirit of emigration is once begun and is spreading fast'. All editions are scarce; this variant of the second edition with beaded rather than straight-line rules on the title page is no exception; ESTC records copies at just five locations in the British Isles Advocates BL Glasgow NLS and NMS and just three further in North America California NYPL and Kansas. ESTC N20925. Second edition. 8vo. [s.n.] hardcover