The Minstrel, in Two Books...with some other poems

James Beattie

The first collected edition of the two parts of James Beattie's The Minstrel, alongside several of his juvenile poems, formerly collected in Poems on Several Subjects, and the hitherto unpublished companion to the Minstrel, 'The Hermit'

Editions and Volumes cited in the edition

1 ed., 1 vol., London: Edward and Charles Dilly 1779
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1 ed., 1 vol., London: T. Gillet 1797
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The Minstrel, in Two Books...with some other poems (1 ed., 1 vol., London: T. Gillet 1797)

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