Beattie, James The minstrel; or, the progress of genius London 1772
Beattie, James. The minstrel; or, the progress of genius. A poem. The first book. London: printed for Edward and Charles Dilly; and A. Kincaid and W. Creech (Edinburgh), 1772. vii(1), 32 pp. 4to, disbound. Third edition; first published anonymously the year before, with a second edition later the same year. Beattie added a second book in 1774; the whole became one of the most popular poems of the late 18th and early 19th century. A very good copy, complete with the half-title. CBEL II, 640.
£25
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