Prose of Allan Ramsay

Rhona Brown is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Literature and the Periodical Press at the University of Glasgow. She specialises in eighteenth-century Scots language poetry and the history of the periodical press in Scotland, as well as in eighteenth-century club culture. Brown is author of Robert Fergusson and the Scottish Periodical Press (2012) and co-editor of Before Blackwood’s: Scottish Journalism in the Age of Enlightenment (2015), and she has published widely on eighteenth-century Scottish literature and journalism. In the Collected Works of Allan Ramsay series, Brown is editor of a two-volume edition of Ramsay’s Poems (2023), and she is co-editor of the Oxford University Press edition of Robert Burns’s Correspondence. Craig Lamont is Lecturer in Scottish Studies at the University of Glasgow, working across Scottish Literature and Scottish History. He has worked on the Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Allan Ramsay and the Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Burns, and has published new editions of Dorothy K. Haynes. He co-edited 1820: Scottish Rebellion, Essays on a Nineteenth-Century Insurrection (2022). His monograph The Cultural Memory of Georgian Glasgow was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2021. His chief research interests are memory, print culture, and bibliography.

In this valuable scholarly resource, Brown and Lamont have carefully gathered and edited a variety of materials (prefaces, dedications, pamphlets, unpublished letters, business accounts and even a rebus) to shed new light on Ramsay’s central role as a complex cultural figure and entrepreneur in the newly created nation of Great Britain.

• Acknowledgements AbbreviationsGeneral Editor’s Preface Biography of Allan Ramsay Introduction to ProseTEXTList of Letters Letters Miscellaneous Prose Advertisement, The Battel (1716) Preface, Tartana (1718) Dedication and Advertisement, Christ’s Kirk on the Green (Edinburgh: William Adams, 1718) Advertisement, Christ’s Kirk on the Green (Edinburgh: Ruddiman, 1718) Dedication, Robert, Richy and Sandy (1721) Advertisement, Poems (1721) Advertisement 2, Poems (1721) Dedication and Preface, Poems (1721) List of Fables (c.1722) Advertisement, Fables and Tales (1722) Preface, The Fair Assembly (1723) Dedication, ‘The Pleasures of Improvments in Agriculture Plant Gard’ (1723) Dedication and Preface, The Ever Green (1724) Preface, The Gentle Shepherd (1725) Some Few Hints In Defence of Dramatical Entertainments (c.1728) Dedication, Poems (1728) Preface, Tea-Table Miscellany (Dublin, 1729) A Collection of Scots Proverbs, More Complete and Correct than Any Heretofore Published (1737) Notes on Sir David Lindsay’s Language (1724–43) Notes on Theatre in Edinburgh (c. early 1730s)Undated Prose The Court Notes on The Fair Quaker of Deal Notes on The Doating Lovers Notes on The Basset Table Notes on The Artful Husband Notes on The ApparitionAppendix 1: Habberdashery account of Allan Ramsay to Sir Robert Menzies (1718) Appendix 2: Deed of Corporation of the Edinburgh Academy of St. Luke (1729) Appendix 3: The Ramsay and Cooper Rebus (c.1725–38) NOTESLetters Miscellaneous Prose Undated Prose Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3Glossary Bibliography