12mo. [8], 166pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked, some surface loss to upper board/joint. Hinges exposed.

A 'new edition' of thirteen poems by James Beattie (1735-1803), including some that first appeared in Original poems and translations (London [i.e. Aberdeen?], 1760), 'The Judgement of Paris' and 'Verses occasioned by the report of a Monument', which appeared in separate pamphlets in 1765, and three other never before published.