The Bibliography of James Maidment, Esq

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Excerpt from The Bibliography of James Maidment, Esq.: Advocate, Edinburgh, From the Year In the year 1859, I issued a "Tractate" entitled "Bibliographical List of the Various Publications by James Maidment, Esquire, Advocate, from the year 1817 to 1859, " to which I prefixed the following "Preface": - "As so many mistakes are made in regard to the Editorship and Authorship of anonymous publications, the Compiler of this List ventures to think that Bibliographers will not be displeased by his placing before those individuals who take an interest in such matters a Catalogue of the Publications which the gentleman whose name is prefixed has, from time to time, issued from the Press. Most of them are without the Editor's name, several are privately printed, and very many are now rare and difficult to attain. "Of the importance of many of the greater proportion there can be little doubt. Reference may in particular be made to the Analecta Scotica, - the Melros Papers, - the Letters and State Papers of the Reign of James VI. - the Scottish Historical Fragments. In Genealogy, the Peerage Reports, which were so much relied on in the great cases of the Crawford and Montrose Peerages, - the Genealogies of the Saint-Claires, - the Hayes of Tweeddale, the Carrick Earldom, and the Argyle Papers. Nor are the contributions to the lighter literature of the country without their value, - for example, the Scottish Pasquils and Scottish Elegiac Verses, - and the Romances of Rouland and Vernagu, and Otuel. "Some of the scarcest volumes are those privately printed. Not unfrequently fault is found by captious critics, that what might be interesting to the public should be kept entirely in the hands of a few favoured persons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.