A new edition of the life and heroick actions of the renown'd Sir William Wallace, [electronic resource] : General and governor of Scotland: wherein the old obscure words are rendered more intelligiable, and adapted to the understanding of such who have no leasure to study the meaning and import of such phrases, without the help of a glossary. By Willam Hamilton. To which is annexed, The life and martial atchivements [sic] of that valiant hero, Robert Bruce King of Scotland. By John Hervey.
1772
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A new edition of the life and heroick actions of the renown'd Sir William Wallace, [electronic resource] : General and governor of Scotland: wherein the old obscure words are rendered more intelligiable, and adapted to the understanding of such who have no leasure to study the meaning and import of such phrases, without the help of a glossary. By Willam Hamilton. To which is annexed, The life and martial atchivements [sic] of that valiant hero, Robert Bruce King of Scotland. By John Hervey.
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Edinburgh : Printed by H. Galbnaith, and sold at his printing-house in the Bull-close, opposite to the Tron-Church, M,DCC,LXXII. [1772]
Place of Publication or Printing
Great Britain -- Scotland -- Edinburgh.
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English
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xxx,[2],394p. ; 8⁰.
Note
The author named in the introduction as "blind Hary", i.e. Henry the Minstrel.
Verse.
Based on the Latin prose history of Wallace by John Blair, and adapted in modern English by William Hamilton.
'The life of Robert Bruce' has a separate dated titlepage, but pagination and register are continuous.
Reproduction of original from Trinity College Library.
Verse.
Based on the Latin prose history of Wallace by John Blair, and adapted in modern English by William Hamilton.
'The life of Robert Bruce' has a separate dated titlepage, but pagination and register are continuous.
Reproduction of original from Trinity College Library.
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English Short Title Catalog, T216121.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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