Ritson's Bibliographia Scotica. Reprinted from PMLA . . . quarterly Volume LII, March 1937, Number 1

N. Y.: Modern Language Association. Fine. N.D.. Softcover. Abstract; printed, stapled tan wrappers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 122-159 pages; "During the last decade of his life, Joseph Ritson compiled a catalogue of Scottish authors, a Bibliographia Scotica. He had brought it nearly to completion by 1801, and intended to publish it as a companion volume to his Bibliographia Poetica. On Jan. 31, 1801, he sent the prefaces of both works to Thomas Park for correction. But he circulated the manuscript also among other friends, notably George Chalmers, and Walter Scott, in the hope of making it more perfect; so that when he died, in September, 1803, the work was still unpublished. It was known that in the paroxysm which ended his life he had destroyed many of his papers; and for a time his friends feared the Bibliographia Scotica had perished. " [Bronson] It did not, and here Bronson describes bibliographical and historical aspects of the manuscript. .