If the son had his father's book only in manuscript, it seems very probable that it was not printed in 1691 that the title-page is only the title-page of a manuscript. The reprint, of one hundred copies, was made, as it states, from no printed text, but from 'a manuscript copy preserved in the Advocates' Library.' On page 45 of the edition of 1815,Īt the end of the comments on Lord Tarbott's Letters, there is a 'Note by the Transcriber'-that is, the person who wrote out the manuscript in the Advocates' Library: 'See the rest in a little manuscript belonging to Coline Kirk.' Now Coline or Colin Kirk, Writer to the Signet, was the son of the Rev. Research in our great libraries has discovered none, and there is none save that of 1815 at Abbotsford.

163, note), 'It was printed with the author's name in 1691, and reprinted, in 1815, for Longman & Co.' But was there really a printed edition of 1691? Scott says that he never met with an example. Sir Walter Scott says in his Demonology and Witchcraft, (1830, p.

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