[CROMEK, ROBERT HARTLEY]. Remains Of Nithsdale And Galloway Song: with Historical and Traditional Notices Relative to the Manners and Customs of the Peasantry. London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810.
FIRST EDITION; leather bound, hardcover, octavo (20.5 x 13 x 3 cm), pp. [2], viii, xxxii, 370. English text. Bound in near contemporary full tan polished calf, marbled page edges, title-page vignette, printed footnotes. Contents:- Introduction; Class I. Sentimental ballads: The Lord's Marie; Bonnie Lady Ann; She's Gane to Dwall in Heaven; Thou Hast Sworn by Thy God, My Jeanie; Lady Jean's Luve; The Broken Heart of Annie; Habbie's Frae Hame; The Return of Spring; The Lovely Lass of Preston Mill; Fragment; The Auld Carle's Welcome; A Weary Bodie's Blythe Whan the Sun Gangs Down; My Ain Fire-Side; Class II. Humorous ballads: The Pawky Auld Kimmer; The Ewe-Bughts; The pawky Loon the Miller; The Gray Cock; Stars dinna keek in ; Galloway Tam ; Tam Bo ; Were ye at the Pier o' Leith ; Our guid-wife's ay in the right ; Original of Burns's 'Carly of Kelly-Burn Braes'; Souter Sawney Had a Wife; Fairly Shot on Her; Original of Burns's 'Gude Ale Comes'; There's Nane o' Them a' Like My Bonnie Lassie; My Kimmer and I; Variations of 'Tibbie Fowler'; Cannie wi' Your Blinkin, Bessie; The Bridal Sark; The Bridegroom Darg; Class III. Jacobite Ballads, 1715: Derwentwater, a Fragment; Lament for the Lord Maxwell; The Lusty Carlin; Kenmure's on an' Awa, Willie; The Wee, Wee German Lairdie; Awa, Wigs, Awa; The Highland Laddie; Merry May the Keel Rowe; Song of the Chevalier; Jacobite ballads, 1745: Carlisle Yetts, a Fragment; Were ye e'er at Crookie Den?; Cumberland and Mirray's Descent into Hell; Hame, Hame, Hame; The Waes o' Scotland; The Sun's Bright in France; The Lamentation of an Old Man Over the Ruin of His Family;The Lovely Lass of Inverness; The Young Maxwell; Lassie, Lie Near Me ; Bannocks o' Barley; Young Airly; The Highland Widow's Lament; Charlie Stewart; Class IV. Old Ballads and Fragments: We Were Sisters, We Were Seven; Two Verses of Logan Braes; O Who is this Under My Window; Lady Margerie; Young Airly; The mermaid of Galloway; Appendix: Scottish Games; A Specimen of the Tender Mercies of Claverhouse, from the Life of Alexander Peden; 'Taking the Beuk'; Description of the Stool of Repentance; History of Witchcraft, Sketched from the Popular Tales of the Peasantry of Nithsdale and Galloway; Character of the Scottish Lowland Fairies; Particulars of the Escape of Lord Nithsdale from the Tower, in 1716; Account of Billy Blin', the Scotch Brownie; Brief Memoir of the Life of John Lowe, author of 'Mary's Dream/ by the Rev. William Gillespie, Minister of Kells Parish, in Galloway; Mary's dream; Old way of Mary's dream. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Covers with light rubbing to extremities. Title-page foxed and an inscription to the front endpaper, the contents otherwise well-preserved.
Notes: Almost wholly the work of Allan Cunningham, who supplied Cromek with original poems, disguised as old ballads, etc. Whether Cromek suspected the imposition is not clear. cf. Dict. nat. biog. and D. Hogg, Life of A. Cunningham. 1875 (esp. p. 49-, & 79).
