McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

Bibliographic Citation:

Millar's second edition of Hardyknute : an old heroic Scottish ballad. [Paisley] : J. Neilson, printer, [ca. 1810]

Alternative Title:

Hardyknute

Contributor:

Millar, John, active 1809
Neilson, John, -1819, printer
Young, Andrew, active 1810, printer
Wardlaw, Elizabeth, Lady, 1677-1727.

Publisher:

J. Neilson, printer, [ca. 1810]

Notes:

Caption title.
Authorship uncertain; sometimes attributed to Lady Wardlaw.
"Hardyknute continued" (p. 13-28 = stanzas 17-98) has imprint: Paisley, Printed by Andrew Young.
Date from BLC ("Paisley repository" printed 1809-1811).
Text in Scots; introd. and notes in English.

Physical Description:

text.chapbook.black and white, 16 cm.

Language:

Subject:

Scots language -- Texts.
Chapbooks, Scottish -- Specimens.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.
Scotland -- History -- Alexander III, 1249-1286 -- Poetry.

Genre/Form:

Chapbooks -- Scotland -- Paisley -- 19th century.

Chapbook Category:

Metrical Tales and Other Verse

Call Number:

PN970 H88 Q44 1823 Rare Books/Special Collections

Digital Collection:

McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

Sponsor:

With: Queen Mary's lamentation. Glasgow : Published and sold, wholesale and retail, by R. Hutchison, bookseller, 19 Saltmarket,1823. Bound together subsequent to publication (18 cm). In this collection of Scottish chapbooks bound together another title is bound in between the first part and the second part (p. 13-38) of "Millar's second edition of Hardyknute"; a second copy of the first part (p. 1-12) is bound in second from the end.

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Link to this chapbook:

http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/chapbooks/fullrecord.php?ID=10610

Chapbook Identifier:

PN970_H88_Q44_1823_004017983