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 NOTICES AND DOCUMENTS 
 
 ILLUSTRATIVE OF 
 
 ^i)c attetare l^i^tote 
 
 OF 
 
 GLASGOW, 
 
 DURING THE GREATER PART OF LAST CENTURY. 
 
 PRINTED AT GLASGOW. 
 
 M.DCCC.XXXL
 
 PRESENTED 
 
 TO 
 
 THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 JHaitlautr €Uih, 
 
 BY 
 
 RICHARD DUNCAN.
 
 THE MAITLAND CLUB. 
 
 M.DCCC.XXXI. 
 
 THE TxIGHT HONOURABLE 
 
 THE EARL OF GLASGOW, 
 
 [PRESIDENT.] 
 
 H. R. H. THE DUKE OF SUSSEX. 
 ROBERT AD AIM, ESQ. 
 ROBERT AIRD, ESQ. 
 5 JOHN BAIN, ESQ. 
 JOSEPH BAIN, ESQ. 
 ROBERT BELL, ESQ. 
 THE MARQUIS OF BUTE. 
 ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, ESQ. 
 10 LORD JOHN CAMPBELL. 
 JOHN D. CARRICK, ESQ. 
 HENRY COCKBURN, ESQ.
 
 MAITLAND CLUB. 
 
 JA31ES DENNISTOUN, ESQ. 
 
 JA3IES DOBIE, ESQ. 
 15 RICHAED DUNCAN, ESQ. ITREASURER.] 
 
 JAIMES DUNLOP, ESQ. 
 
 JA3IES EWING, ESQ. 
 
 KIROIAN FINLAY, ESQ. 
 
 EEV. WILLIAM FLEMING, D.D. 
 20 WILLIA3I M. FLEMING, ESQ. 
 
 JOHN FULLARTON, ESQ. 
 
 JA3IES HILL, ESQ. 
 
 LAURENCE HILL, ESQ. 
 
 JOHN KERR, ESQ. [VICE-PRESIDENT.] 
 25 R. A. KIDSTON, ESQ. 
 
 G. R. KINLOCH, ESQ. 
 
 JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART, ESQ. 
 
 JA3IES MAID3IENT, ESQ. 
 
 THOMAS MAITLAND, ESQ. 
 30 J. H. M.\X\VELL, ESQ. 
 
 WILLLUI MEIKLEHA3T, ESQ. 
 
 W. H. MILLER, ESQ. 
 
 WILLIAM 3I0THERWELL, ESQ. 
 WILLL\3I 3IURE, ESQ. 
 35 ALEX.\NT)I:R 31'DON.^D, ESQ.
 
 MAITLAND CLUB. 
 
 THE VERY REV. PRINCIPAL MACFARLAN, D.D. 
 
 WILLIAM MACBOWAL, ESQ. 
 
 .\NDREW BI'GEORGE, ESQ. 
 
 JOHN W. MACKENZIE, ESQ. 
 40 ALEXANDER M'GRIGOR, ESQ. 
 
 GEORGE MACINTOSH, ESQ, 
 
 DONALD MACINTYRE, ESQ. 
 
 ALEXANDER M'NIELL, ESQ. 
 
 ALEXANDER OSWALD, ESQ. 
 45 EDWARD PIPER, ESQ. 
 
 JOHN M. PAGAN, M.D. 
 
 WILLIAM PATRICK, ESQ. 
 
 ROBERT PITCAIRN, ESQ. 
 
 J. C. PORTERFIELD, ESQ. 
 50 HAMILTON PYPER, ESQ. 
 
 P. A. RAMSAY, ESQ. 
 
 WILLIAIVI ROBERTSON, ESQ. 
 
 SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART. 
 
 JAMES SMITH, ESQ. 
 55 JOHN SMITH, ESQ. 
 
 JOHN SMITH, Ygst. ESQ. 
 
 WILLIAM SMITH, ESQ. 
 
 GEORGE S5IYTHE, ISQ.
 
 MAITLAND CLUB. 
 
 MOSES STEVEN, E^Q. 
 (jO DUNCAN STEWART, ESQ. 
 
 S. D. STIRLING, ESQ. 
 
 JOHN STRANG, ESQ. 
 
 THOMAS THOiMSON, ESQ. 
 
 PATRICK ERASER TYTLER, ESQ. 
 65 ADAM URQUHART, ESQ. 
 
 SIR PATRICK WALKER, KNT. 
 
 AVILSON D. WILSON, ESQ. 
 
 JOHN WYLIE, ESQ. [SECRETARY.]
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 In presenting the following Notices and Documents to the Members of 
 the Maitland Club, some apology may be deemed necessary for the 
 substitution of a work of recent origin for one of earlier date, — and for 
 the title which has been adopted. 
 
 Hitherto no work has appeared which contains much information 
 regarding the literature of Glasgow, and the Arts connected with it, 
 during the last century. The materials for such a work are so much 
 scattered, that the editor conceived that an attempt to collect them 
 might not be unacceptable. 
 
 In regard to the title, he is conscious that it seems to promise more 
 than the contents of this volume will strictly warrant. At the outset 
 of the work, he merely proposed to combine a . few notices relative to 
 Printing and the Institution for the Fine Arts, established by Robert 
 and Andrew Foulis. In collecting materials with this view, a few inci- 
 dental pieces of information regarding the literary history of the city 
 came in his way : — these he felt unwilling to suppress, as they seemed 
 to possess some interest, and were not unconnected with his subject. 
 A more comprehensive title thus became necessary, and while he is 
 aware tliat his information is in many cases botli meagre and imperfect, 
 he feels that, unless he had something new or important to communicate, 
 any notices of the eminent persons whose memoirs have been written 
 by Stewart, Traill, Craig, and Robison, would have been superfluous.
 
 Several short biographies of Robert and Andrew FouHs have been 
 pubUshed, but they seem to have been almost wholly taken from one 
 source, — Lemoine's History of Printing. The late Earl of Buchan, so 
 early as 1795, addressed a letter to Mr John NichoUs, at that time editor 
 of tlie Gentleman's Magazine, in which he recommends that a more com- 
 plete memoir of " the Elzevirs of Scotland" should be prepared for one 
 of Pinkerton's biographical works, then publishing. In this letter it is 
 also mentioned that Professors Anderson and Wilson would supply the 
 necessary materials. The Earl seems at length to have taken the task 
 into his own hands, and to have extended his researches to the literary 
 and typographical history of Glasgow generally. In tliis work, the 
 proposed title of which was " Anecdotes of Printing and Academical 
 LiteratLU*e at Glasgow," his Lordship was assisted by the late Dr Robert 
 Anderson, but unfortunately it was never completed, — a circumstance 
 the more to be regretted, as a large proportion of the Foulis papers 
 have since perished by fire. The results of their investigations are now 
 in the possession of Miss Anderson, of Edinburgh, by whom they were 
 politely communicated to the editor through the medium of Dr Irving, 
 of the Advocates' Library. 
 
 About the year 1811 Lord Buclian wrote to Professor Richardson 
 of Glasgow, requesting his reminiscences of the Foulises. The letter 
 written in reply (quoted under the name of "Richardson's Letter") 
 contains much original and interesting information. For access to this 
 document the editor has to acknowledge his obligations to W. R. Gibb, 
 Esquire, into whose possession a copy, with Mr Richardson's interlined 
 corrections, came by descent. 
 
 The Catalogue of Books has been drawn up principally from the 
 works themselves, and with the assistance of Mr D. Macvean, who 
 turnished a very large mass of materials for it, many of which, and 
 especially the smaller pamphlets, might have been searched for in vain.
 
 XI 
 
 Unfortunately no document remains from which the completeness of 
 the Catalogue can be proved, but it is probable that from the variety 
 of the sources from whicli it has been compiled few articles of im- 
 portance have been omitted. Those for which dates have not been 
 found are added in a separate List, with a few which were ascertained 
 after the first part of the Catalogue was printed. The sizes and 
 original " trade prices" of the books in sheets are also affixed from a 
 Catalogue of the Stock of Messieurs Foulis, for which the editor is 
 indebted to the kindness of David Laing, Esquire, Secretary to the 
 Bannatyne Club. To Mr Laing he has also to acknowledge his obli- 
 gations for the Catalogue of Paintings, — which is the only remaining 
 record of the works produced at the Glasgow Academy, — and for many 
 other favours. 
 
 The editor has also offer his thanks to the Very Reverend Principal 
 Macfarlan and to William Meikleham, Esquire, for the readiness with 
 which access to the University and College Records has been afforded 
 him, — to Dr Irving, for several interesting papers relative to Dr James 
 Moor and to the Literary Society, printed among the Original Papers, — 
 and to the Reverend Dr Fleming, Professor of Oriental Languages in 
 this University, whose relation, Mr John Fleming, was the corrector of 
 the Foulis press, and who has left some curious notices in his Diary, 
 which unfortunately came too late to be embodied in the early part of 
 the work. 
 
 As an illustration, an engraving from a medallion of Robert Foulis, 
 by Tassie, has been prefixed. It is considered by one of his very few 
 surviving friends an excellent likeness. 
 
 In conclusion, it may be necessary to state that the first part of the 
 Notices of the History of Printing, extending from 1638 to about 1740, 
 does not contain by any means a complete enumeration of the Glasgow 
 printers. This has been recently given by Mr Macvean in his edition
 
 Xll 
 
 of M'Ure's History of Glasgow, and the repetition of it was therefore 
 unnecessary. The editor's only object was, to introduce as much of it 
 into this volume as would convey a correct idea of the state of the art, 
 when Mr Foulis began to practice it. 
 
 W. J. D. 
 December, 1831.
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Notices regarding the History of Printing in Glasgow, ... i 
 Catalogue of Books printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, . . .49 
 
 Notices regarding the Academy established at Glasgow by Robert and Andrew Foidis, 81 
 
 Catalogue of Pictures, &c. done at the Academy in the University of Glasgow, 91 
 Original Papers, containing, 
 
 I. Propofals for erecting a Bookfellers ihop and a printing prefs within the 
 
 Univerlity of Glafgow, . . . . . . 119 
 
 II. Agreement between the CoUedge of Glafgow and Donald Govane yor, 120 
 
 III. State of the University at the beginning of the eighteenth century, 122 
 
 IV. Notice of Dr James Moor, ...... 127 
 
 V. Notice of the Literary Society, ..... 132 
 
 VI. Robert Foulis's last Letter to his Partners, .... 136 
 
 VII. Statement of Paper used by Robert and Andrew Foulis, from 1742 to 1765, 138
 
 / 
 
 NOTICES 
 
 REGARDING THE 
 
 HISTORY OF PRINTING 
 
 IN 
 
 GLASGOW.
 
 NOTICES 
 
 REGARDING THE 
 
 HISTORY OF PRINTING 
 
 IN 
 
 GLASGOW. 
 
 The Art of Printing was introduced into Glasgow by George Anderson 
 in 1638,* — the same year in which the memorable General Assembly 
 met there, and one of the first works printed by him was " The Protef- 
 tation of the Generall Affemblie of the Church, and of the noblemen, 
 barons, gentlemen, borrowes, minillers, and commons ; fubfcribers of 
 the Covenant, lately renewed, made in the high Kirk, and at the mer- 
 cate Croffe of Glafgow; the 28, and 29. of November l638."t Ander- 
 son appears to have come to Glasgow in consequence of an invitation 
 from the magistrates, — they agreeing that, besides an annual salary, he 
 should receive a compensation for the expense of removing from Edin- 
 burgh. The following is the first notice of him on the records of the 
 town council : — " 4th January 1640. The faid day ordaines the the- 
 faurer to pay to George Anderfon, printer, ane hundredth pundis, in 
 fatiffa6tion to him of the fuperplus he deburfit in tranfporting of his 
 
 * M'Ure's Hist, new edit. p. 368. 
 
 t Small 4to. eight leaves. It is also printed in The Large Declaration concerning tha 
 Tumults in Scotland, by Charles I., pp. 294—302. 
 
 A
 
 gear to this briighe, by the ten doUoris he gave him of befoir to 
 that efFe6l : and als in fatiffa6lion to him of his haill bygane fealhs 
 fra Witfonday in anno 1638 to Martimes lafl."* Anderson was suc- 
 ceeded by his son Andrew, who appears to have printed in Edin- 
 burgh in 1654-1655. He commenced printing in Glasgow some time 
 afterwards, and continued there till about I66I, when he returned 
 to Edinburgh. t Having obtained the appointments of printer to that 
 city and coIlege,1: he in I67O began printing an edition of the New 
 Testament in black letter, but it was so disgracefully inaccurate that the 
 Privy Council, on the 9th of February, I67I, ordained him "to re- 
 ceive from the flationers all the copies remaining unfold," and pro- 
 hibited him under a penalty of £100 sterling from reissuing it, until it 
 should be revised and a new Title Page prefixed to it. Notwithstand- 
 ing this transaction, which one would suppose would have ruined his 
 character as a printer, Anderson was, within three months from that 
 date, appointed his Majesty's sole printer for Scotland. || 
 
 Anderson was succeeded in Glasgow by Robert Sanders, who styled 
 himself Printer to the City, and who was for many years the only 
 printer in the west of Scotland. But his unworthy predecessor, the 
 royal typographer, being determined to enjoy his monopoly to its fullest 
 extent, proceeded to Glasgow, and by threats or fair promises prevailed 
 upon Sanders' workmen to desert him *' in the midfl of ane impreffion 
 [of the New Testament] to his heavie loffe and prejudice." This op- 
 
 * Tabula Naufragii, No. 19. 
 
 t M'Ure, new edit. p. 368. 
 
 X On lOth June, 1GG3, "The Magillrates appointed Andrew Anderfon to be ordinar 
 printer to the good Town and College of the funien, in place of Gideon Lithgo, decealed, 
 during plcafure, he ferving als well and als eafie in the prices as utheris. " — Chalmer's Life 
 of Ruddiinaii, p. 100. 
 
 II Memorial for Bible Societies in Scotland, by Dr John Lee, pp. IIG — 118.
 
 pressive action brought the matter before the Privy Council, which 
 decided, in December, I67I, that Sanders should be allowed to finish 
 his book, and that every printer in Scotland had an equal right with his 
 Majesty's to print the New Testament and Psalm Book in the letter 
 commonly called English Roman, In 16S0 the heir of Anderson com- 
 plained to the Council that Sanders had vended Bibles printed in, and 
 imported from, Holland, and that he had reprinted several works on 
 divinity contrary to privilege. This charge having been proven against 
 him by his own confession, he was ordained to deliver up the books so 
 printed to the pursuer, but no other penalty was inflicted. He ulti- 
 mately purchased a share of the royal patent, and having brought work- 
 men and materials from Holland, printed several works in a creditable 
 style.* 
 
 Sanders died, according to Watson, about I696, leaving his printing 
 establishment to his son, Robert Sanders, better known by the designa- 
 tion " of Auldhouse," — a property purchased from a younger branch of 
 the family of Maxwell of PoUoc.t A few of the works first printed by 
 him were tolerably executed, but his later productions are extremely 
 paltry and inaccurate. Printing was now, and for some years after- 
 wards, in the lowest state in Scotland. The exorbitancy of the royal 
 grant to Anderson had produced the worst effects. No person appears 
 to have been employed for the sole purpose of correcting the press, and 
 the low wages given to pressmen, with the badness of the machines 
 themselves, also tended to retard improvement.! To these may be 
 added the following : — " There are two things hinder us in Scotland 
 from printing, — pride and poverty. Pride, — in that we will print no- 
 
 * Lee's Memorial. App. p. 46 — 9. pp. 131 — 3. 120. Watson's Hist, of Printing, p. 13. 
 t Crawfurd's Renfrewsli., Robertson's edit. p. 35. M'Ure, new edit. pp. 368 — 9. 
 X Watson's Hist, of Printing, pp. 20 — 2.
 
 thing that is common, whereas abroad the plainefl and mofl common 
 things are printed and reprinted every year, but we will not appear 
 unlefs we have fomewhat new and furprifing to the world : And 
 poverty, — we want money to print, and the people want it to buy 
 books, and there is no Hile for them when printed."* 
 
 The University, in the meantime, was not wanting in efforts to im- 
 prove the printing of Glasgow.! Mr George Ridpath thus writes to 
 Principal Stirling in I7IO : — " Mr Murthland wrote fome time ago 
 about a printer from hence. I fpoke to one, but they want to know the 
 particulars of their encouragem*. 'Tis a bad time now for y' prefTe is 
 full of whats little worth, however, let me know your mind and I will 
 do what I can."t 
 
 Probably this attempt was not successful, but the matter does not 
 seem to have been overlooked. A paper, entitled " Propofals for ere6l- 
 ing a bookfeller's fliop and a printing prefs within the Univerfity of 
 Glafgow,"|| appears to have been presented to the Faculty in 1713, in 
 which it is mentioned that they were " obliged to go to Ed'^' in order to 
 gett one flieet right printed." During the same year Thomas Harvie, 
 
 * Wodrow's Life of Prof. Wodrow, pp. 170, 171. 
 
 t However inferior the execution, there seems to have been no lack of printers in 
 Scotland at this period. " Sir," says John Anderson to his correspondent, " I know 
 Eldinburgh tolerably well. I did eat bread in it for the fpace of twenty-five years : I 
 know there are abundance of printing prelTes in it which want to be employed ; and I, 
 even when in a private capacity, never found any difficulty in getting a thoufand copies 
 of a (beet of paper thrown off in twenty-four hours ; for when one would not, another 
 would." — Anderson's Letters upon the Overtures concerning Kirk-Sessions and Presby- 
 teries. Glas. 1720. pp. 5, G. 
 
 X Letters to Princ. Stirling, MS. in I3ibl. Univ. Glasg. This collection, which extends 
 to four quarto volumes, was presented to Wodrovv, the historian, by Stirling's widow, and 
 formed part of the Wodrow cf)llection of manuscripts. 
 
 II These "propofals" are printed in Orig. Papers: No. I.
 
 a student of divinity, engaged to furnish " with all convenient difpatch, 
 on or moe printing preffes, and at farthefl four years from the date 
 liereof^ to furnifli funts and otiier materials for printing Greek, Latin, 
 & Hebrew ; at leafl fo many of the laft Kind of Characters, as are 
 needfull to print a Grammar," — under condition that he should be im- 
 mediately declared University Printer and Bookseller for forty years, 
 with " all the priviledges & Immunities which the Univerlity hath, or 
 Ihall have hereafter to beflow on their Printer & Bookfeller." Although 
 these terms were probably not ultimately accepted, they seem at least 
 to have been under frequent consideration, and the sketch of a contract 
 with Harvie is preserved among the University papers. Two years 
 afterwards, " Donald Govane, younger, merchant in Glafgow and 
 printer," was appointed to the same office for seven years.* His name 
 appears at very few books. 
 
 In I7I8 the art of type making was introduced by "James Duncan 
 letter founder in Glafgow." The types used by him are evidently of 
 his own making, — rudely cut and badly proportioned. He deserves 
 credit, however, for the attempt, — and his letters are little inferior to 
 those used by the other Scottish printers of that period. He continued 
 to print for many years,t and is well known as the typographer of 
 M'Ure's History. In this book, which is not a creditable specimen of 
 his work, he is styled " Printer to the City." 
 
 The precise date at which Robert Urie commenced printing is not 
 known. Robert Urie and company were printers in the Gallowgate in 
 1740, and during the following year executed several works for Robert 
 
 * The contract between the College and Govan, which is curious, as showing what 
 was required of a University Printer in these days, is inserted among Orig. Pap... 
 No. II. 
 
 f M'Ure, new edit. p. 370. Duncan continued to print till about 1750
 
 Foulis.* They also printed the Glasgow Journal, which had been 
 begun by Andrew Stalker in July, 1741. 
 
 The first Newspaper published in Glasgow, appeared on the 14th of 
 November, 1715, and was entitled " The Glafgow Courant. Contain- 
 ing the Occurrences both at Home and Abroad : Glafgow, Printed for 
 R. T. and are to be fold at the Printing Houfe in the CoUedge, and 
 at the Pod Office."! It soon, however, changed its name, as the fourth 
 number was published under the title of the " The Weft Country Intel- 
 ligence." The following is a copy of the prospectus : — 
 
 " This Paper is to be Printed three Times every Week for the Ufe of 
 the Countrey round, any Gentleman or Minifter or any other, who wants 
 them, may have them at the Univei-fities Printing Houfe, or at the Poft 
 Office ; its hoped this Paper will give fatiffa6lion to the Readers, and 
 that they will encourage it by fending Subfcriptions for one Year, half 
 Year, or Quarterly, to the above dire6led Places, where they Ihall be 
 ferved at a moft eafie Rate.t 
 
 " Advertifements are to be taken in at either the Printing Houfe in 
 the College, or Poft Office. 
 
 " The Gentlemen in the Towns of Aberdeen, St. Andrews, Invernefs, 
 Brcchen, Dundee, St. Johnftoun, Stirling, Dumbarton, Invcrary, Dum- 
 fries, Lancrk, Hamiltoun, Irwin, Air, Kilmarnock and Stranraer are 
 defned to fend by Poft any News they have, .and cfpecially Sea-Port 
 Towns to advifc what Ships come in or fail off" from thofe Parts." 
 
 * Ibid p. 372. A few of these books will be found in the Catalogue of AVorks printed 
 by R. & A. F. 
 
 t This curious article is preserved in the University Library. 
 
 X What tiiis " moft eafie rate" was, is thus noticed in number 33. " N. B. This Paper 
 is not fold in Retail under three half-pence, but for encouragement to fubfcribers, for one 
 penny."
 
 It is not known how long this paper was continued. The set of it 
 in the College Library extends to the 1st of May, I716, — being in all 
 67 numbers. It was printed on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, 
 in a small quarto form (each paper containing twelve pages), and was 
 made up of extracts from foreign journals, from the London news- 
 papers, private letters, and occasional poetry,* with very little local 
 intelligence. 
 
 The Glasgow Journal was begun under the editorship of Andrew 
 Stalker, a bookseller, in July, 174L With what degree of talent it was 
 conducted for the first few years, it would be difficult to ascertain, — no 
 copy of it during that period being known to remain. Fortunately the 
 numbers from 1745 to 1749 have been recovered, — a period, one would 
 suppose, sufficiently interesting. The editor, however, appears to have 
 consulted his own personal security too much to permit him to give a 
 firm and candid detail of the events which were then taking place. He 
 has omitted several of the most important facts in the history of the 
 Rebellion ; and at length, when the danger approached his own door, 
 was constrained to give vent to his terror in a letter which he inserted 
 
 * Let the following serve as a specimen : — 
 
 From the Fling Post. 
 MAR ALIAS R A M. 
 
 AN ANAGRAM. 
 
 Mar (read it Ram the other way) ^ 
 ., Has made a Pufli, and loft the day > 
 
 And turns his Tail to Firth of Tay.j 
 Perhaps (tho' fo well taught to trick it) 
 Caught hy his back in Highland Thicket, 
 At leaft a Vi6lim he may bleed 
 For leading wrong that iliagged Breed, 
 Which now in doleful manner flain, 
 Cover the Fields about Dtimhlain, &c, &c. &c.
 
 8 
 
 in the Journal, He had offended his readers by his omissions, and de- 
 termined to retire for a time from his pubhc duties. The following is 
 his advertisement : — 
 
 " 061. 14. [1745]. To the encouragers of the Glafgow Journal. 
 Gentlemen, — I have carried on this paper fince tlie beginning, and 
 have, to the utmofl of my power, endeavoured to give an impartial 
 account of fa6ls as they happened ; but finding that, confidering the 
 fituation of affairs, / cannot with safety publish so as to please the gene- 
 rality of my readers, I have, therefore, given over being concerned in 
 the writing or publilliing this paper till fuch time as the peace of this 
 country be rellored, and have committed the care of it to an unexcep- 
 tionable hand ; and as you have favored me with your countenance and 
 encouragement, I hope you'll continue to do fo to him ; and am thank- 
 fully and refpe6lfully, Gentlemen, your moll humble Servant, 
 
 Andi'ew Stalker." 
 
 It would seem that this advertisement had been misunderstood, and 
 to set the public right. Stalker published another letter in the next 
 paper : — 
 
 " Oct. 21. To the encouragers of the Glalgow Journal. 
 
 "A wrong fenfe being put upon my lall advcrtifement, as if I intended 
 entirely to drop this Paper, I hereby inform my Readers, that I continue 
 to liave the fame Share in it as formerly, tho' for fome time I am not to 
 write it, nor colle6l the News from other Papers, Mr. Urie having un- 
 dertaken that Part, who Vm convinced will give Satiffa6lion ; and I 
 liope that fucli as have hitherto been my Friends and Encouragers will 
 continue to be fo. 
 
 Andrew Stalker."
 
 9 
 
 Whether he resumed his editorship in quieter times, we are not in- 
 formed : his name still continues as the publisher of the paper, although 
 immediately after the last letter appeared, Uric's name as printer was 
 suppressed. 
 
 Yet whatever may have been the defects in. the editorial department 
 of this paper, it was printed in a style creditable in the highest degree 
 to the town, and infinitely better than the newspapers published forty 
 years afterwards.* / 
 
 Urie continued to print very extensively in Glasgow till his death, 
 which was occasioned by a paralytic attack on the 9th of February, 
 1771 ;t and although he was guilty of several piracies, — a practice in 
 which he was probably encouraged by a decision of the Court of Session 
 in favour of his friend Stalker in 1748,t — yet he is undoubtedly entitled 
 to the credit of restoring the respectability of the Glasgow press. 
 Among the finest specimens of his work are his editions of the Greek 
 New Testament and of the Spectator. 
 
 Robert Foulis, to whom we have already alluded, was the eldest son 
 of Andrew Faulls,l| maltman in Glasgow, and of Marion Patterson. He 
 was born in or near Glasgow on the 20th of April, 1707* and his 
 
 * The notices of marriages are somewhat amusing, as the following will show : — 
 March 24. 1746. On Monday last, James Dennistoun, junior, of Colgreine, Esq., was 
 
 married to Miss Jenny Baird, a beautiful young lady. 
 
 May 4. 1747. On Monday last, Dr Robert Hamilton, Professor of Anatomy and 
 
 Botany in the University of Glasgow, was married to Miss Mally Baird, a beautiful young 
 
 lady WITH A HANDSOME FORTUNE. 
 
 August 3. 1747. On Monday last, Mr James Johnstone, merchant in this place, was 
 married to Miss Peggy Newall, an agreeable young lady, with £4,000. 
 f Scots Mag. 
 
 % Falconer's Decisions, Vol. I. No. 256. 
 II This was the original name of the family. 
 
 B
 
 10 
 
 brother Andrew about five years afterwards.* During their earUer 
 years, they were educated under the care of their mother, who appears 
 to have been a woman of plain good sense, and to have possessed a 
 degree of knowledge considerably beyond her rank. She instilled into 
 their youthful minds principles, whicli remained with them ever after- 
 wards, and led them uniformly to speak of her with the greatest respect. 
 
 Robert was sent, probably at an early period, as an apprentice to a 
 barber ; — like his countryman, Allan Ramsay, he even seems to have 
 practised the art for some time on his own account. It was while in 
 this humble situation that the celebrated Dr Francis Hutcheson, at that 
 time professor of Moral Philosophy in the University, discovered in him 
 that talent which was afterwards cultivated with so much success ; he 
 inflamed his desire for knowledge, — suggested to him the idea of becom- 
 ing a bookseller and printer, — and although Foulis did not receive a 
 complete University education as a preparatory step to this employment, 
 he continued to attend for several years the lectures of his generous 
 patron. Andrew, who seems to have been originally intended for the 
 church, received a more regular education, and for some years taught 
 the Greek, Latin, and French languages, and all the departments of 
 philosophy then studied at the University. So ardently did the brothers 
 pursue their private studies, that their lamp was seldom extinguished 
 before mid night, t 
 
 The state of the University, in the earlier part of the eighteenth cen- 
 tury, was sufficiently deplorable. When episcopacy was restored by 
 Charles II., it had been deprived of a considerable part of its revenues, — 
 
 * Andrew was born 23d Nov. 1712. (Register of Birtiis.) There were two younger 
 brothers, — James, a clergyman, who died in America, — and .John, originally a barber in 
 Glasgow. 
 
 t Ld. Buchan's Narrative. Richardson's Letter, pp, 16, 17.
 
 11 
 
 those derived from the rentals of church lands. The greater number of 
 the professors had also embarked in the unfortunate Darien expedition;* 
 and the turbulence of the students, with the disturbed state of the coun- 
 try, added to their grievances. About the period at which the Foulises 
 were students, it began to recover from the effects of these " Troubles." 
 The professorships of humanity and ecclesiastical history were revived, 
 and those of oriental languages, civil law, medicine, and botany were 
 founded. t A visitation took place in 1727* and the commissioners 
 drew up a statute and act regulating the University, the most important 
 part of which seems to have been that the professors of philosophy who 
 had hitherto carried their students through the three courses of logic, 
 ethics, and natural philosophy, should in future confine themselves to 
 one of these subjects.t The time was now come when it should no 
 longer be considered beneath the dignity of a learned University to per- 
 mit English to be spoken within its walls. Dr Hutcheson had intro- 
 duced the practice of lecturing in English, and by this means not only 
 obscurity of language was avoided, but the ancient and tiresome method 
 of dictating rendered unnecessary. His colleagues slowly followed his 
 example. 
 
 Of the occupation of the Foulises for several succeeding years, little 
 or nothing is known. In 1738 they went to England, visiting in their 
 route the University of Oxford, — from thence they repaired to the con- 
 tinent, and after an absence of some months returned to Glasgow in 
 November of the same year. They again went abroad in 1739, and 
 resided several months in France. In these tours they had oppor- 
 
 * List of Subscribers to Darien Expedition. 
 
 t JNIemorial for H. Glassford, Esq. of Dugaldston, &c. pp. 13 — 26. 
 X Extracts from tbis " statute," with a few other papers relative to the University, 
 will be found among Original Papers, No. III.
 
 12 
 
 tunities of meeting with persons of considerable literary and scientific 
 attainments ; througli the chevalier Ramsay, they had access to the 
 best public libraries, — and by these means they acquired an extent of 
 information which their private studies could never have given them. 
 During the same periods they applied themselves to the study of the 
 more rare and valuable editions of the Greek and Roman classics ; and 
 as these were then much wanted in Britain,* they collected a consider- 
 able number, and on their return sold them in London at such prices as 
 amply rewarded their industry. Having thus acquired a pretty accurate 
 knowledge of books, Robert began business at Glasgow as a bookseller 
 in ly-il, and in the following year the first productions of his press 
 appeared. While abroad, he had compared the letters used by the dif- 
 ferent printers, and having at length fixed upon those of Robert Ste- 
 phens t as the most elegant, he employed Messrs Wilson & Baine to 
 execute fonts upon these models. He had also attended a printing 
 house in Glasgow for a short time, and had thus acquired a knowledge 
 of the minuter parts of the art. 
 
 From this sketch of the histoiy of printing in Glasgow, it will be 
 evident that Robert Foulis began his career as a printer under very 
 advantageous circumstances. He was assisted in the correction of his 
 press by George Ross, then professor of humanity in the University, 
 ** an elegant Latin scholar, and a modest and most amiable man," — and 
 by James Moor,t at that time a tutor about the college, and afterwards 
 
 * " ^V'he^eas the far greater part of the Books taught in our Schools and Colleges are 
 imported from foreign places into this country" &c. &c. «S:c. See appointment of Ruddiman 
 and Davidson, as printers to the University of Edinburgh, inserted in Chalmers' Life of 
 Ruddiman, p. 101. 
 
 t Which of the three Robert Stephens, — whether the father, son, or grandson (Dibdin's 
 Decameron, vol. ii. pp. 82 — 95), my authority does not mention. 
 
 X For the few notices of Moor which have been preserved, see Orig. Pup., No. IV.
 
 13 
 
 professor of Greek. Dr Alexander Wilson, too, had just then improved 
 the method of casting types, and established a manufactory at the vil- 
 lage of Camlachie, in the immediate neighbourhood of Glasgow. With 
 this excellent man. the two Foulises ever afterwards continued on terms 
 of intimate friendship.* 
 
 To these advantages must be added the appointment of the elder 
 brother as printer to the University shortly afterwards. The following 
 is an extract from the Records : — 
 
 3111. March, 1743. Robert Foulis having this day given in a petition 
 to the Univerlity meeting reprefenting that he had provided himfelf with 
 fine Types both Greek and Latin, and deliring he may be made Univer- 
 fity Printer, The meeting having feen fpecimens of his printing and 
 found it such as he deferves very well to be encouraged, Did cliufe the 
 faid Robert Foulis into the office of Univerlity Printer, and grant to liim 
 all the Privileges belonging thereto upon this condition viz: that he ihall 
 not ufe the delignation of Univerlity printer without allowance from the 
 Univerlity meeting in any Books excepting thofe of antient Authors. 
 
 Jo^" Orr, Re6lor. 
 
 Rob. Simson, CI. Univ. 
 
 The University did not require, as in former times, that a copy of 
 each book printed at their press should be given gratis to the hbrary. 
 From the Records it appears, that Foulis presented a catalogue of the 
 works he had for sale, and that a committee was then appointed to 
 examine and report " what books in that catalogue they thought Ihould 
 be purchased for the public library." 
 
 * A biographical account of Dr Wilson, by his Son, will be found in the Transactions 
 of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. x. pp. 279 — 297. Honourable mention is made 
 of him in Foulis's folio edition of Homer, Preface.
 
 14 
 
 The first books printed by Robert Foulis were principally on religious 
 subjects. In 1742, lie published a pamphlet relative to the State of 
 Religion in New England, and Whitefield's plan for establishing an 
 Orphan House in Georgia. This subject, which occupied at that time 
 much of the public attention, led liim into a controversy with White- 
 field, the result of which, however, has not been ascertained.* Next 
 year produced " Demetrius Phalereus de Elocutione," which Dr Har- 
 wood has marked " a good edition," and which was apparently the first 
 Greek book printed in Glasgow, though George Anderson's printing 
 house had been nearly a century before supplied with Greek and Hebrew 
 types.t In 1744, appeared the celebrated edition of Horace, the proof 
 sheets of which, it is well known, were hung up in the college, and a re- 
 ward offered to any one who should discover an inaccuracy. It was printed 
 under the care of George Ross, professor of humanity in the University, 
 " a man ever to be remembered with respect and regret."t According 
 to Dibdin, its claims to "immaculateness" rest upon no foundation, 
 there being at least six typographical errors.il Three editions of the 
 same author were printed at subsequent periods, none of which are of 
 any comparative value. By the year 1746, Foulis had printed eighteen 
 
 * Foulis's pamphlet does not seem to have sold rapidly. At the distance of thirty-five 
 years after its publication, there were still forty copies on hand — Catalogue of Foulis s 
 Stock, nil. 
 
 t Lee's Memorial, p. 114., note. Harwood, p. 79. 
 
 X Kenrick to Dr AVodrow, April, 1808. Buchan MSS. " Price of the Fine Paper, 
 neatly bound, 3 fli. Commou Paper, in Sheep, Is. 3d." — Glasgow Journal, 15th July, 
 1745. 
 
 II The following is the list : — 
 Page 131, line 119, qnod pro quod. Page 35, line 1, Lib. L pro Lib. II. 
 
 — \1'6, — 29, netus — natus. — 178, — 41, Non est est — Non est. 
 
 — 129, — 38, Tnne — Tune. — 191, — I, Epitolarum — Epistolarum.
 
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 different classics, besides Dr Hutcheson*s class-books, in Englisli and 
 Latin; and Homer, with the Philippics of Demosthenes were advertised 
 as in the press. The Homer appeared in the following year, both in 
 a quarto and an octavo form : the first of these is a very beautiful book, 
 and more correct than the other, which was printed after Dr Clark's 
 edition.* 
 
 It was probably about this period — for the exact date cannot be ascer- 
 tained — that the first society for the discussion of literary and philoso- 
 phical subjects was instituted in Glasgow. t Of this society Robert 
 Foulis was an original member. It met every Friday evening at half- 
 past five o'clock, from the first Friday of November to the second Friday 
 of May ; and if, during that period, any member was absent for four 
 successive nights, without a valid excuse in writing, his name was struck 
 off the list. Each member, in the ordei' of seniority, read an essay on 
 subjects connected with science, literature, or the arts. After this, the 
 president requested the members to state their senthnents, and the orator 
 was then at liberty to reply. In the discussions which followed, the 
 order of seniority was not observed. When each member had read an 
 essay, they in the same order brought forward a question, which they 
 were bound to explain and illustrate, upon which discussions of the same 
 nature as those already mentioned followed. 
 
 * Harvvood on the Classics, p. 3. 
 
 t The dates relative to the institution of the society differ. Mr Craig, in his Life of 
 Professor Millar, makes it in 1752, while Professor Richardson (Life of Professor Arthur) 
 mentions that Dr Hutcheson explained in the society the works of Arrian, &c. Now Dr 
 Hutcheson died of fever in 1747 (Life by Principal Leechman). One of the surviving 
 members has stated, that the first entry on the Records was Remarks on Harris' Hermes, 
 by Mr Clow, professor of logic, which was first published in 1750. The volume, in which 
 these transactions are recorded, has not been recovered.
 
 16 . . 
 
 At the meetings of this society, Dr Hutcheson is believed to have 
 explained and illustrated the works of Arrian, Antoninus, and the other 
 Greek philosophers. Adam Smith read those essays on Taste, Compo- 
 sition, and the History of Philosophy, which he had previously delivered 
 wliile a lecturer on rhetoric in Edinburgh. Several of those read by Dr 
 Reid were afterwards published.* Professor Arthur descanted on the 
 Principles of Criticism, and the Pleasures of Imagination ; and a few of 
 these papers were published after his death in his " Discourses on Theo- 
 logical and Literary Subjects."t Dr Black communicated his discoveries 
 in chemistry, — particularly on the subject of latent heat. And Dr Moor 
 illustrated Grecian literature, and the influence of the Fine Arts upon 
 Society.t 
 
 The discourses read before the society by the elder Foul is were gene- 
 rally on the Fine Arts, although sometimes on Philosophical or even 
 Theological subjects; and it is mentioned by Professor Richardson, that 
 in an essay on Crimes and Punishments, he seems to have anticipated 
 the sentiments of the celebrated Bccarria on these subjects.il 
 
 When he delivered his opinions in the Literary Society, his manner was 
 more reserved than upon other occasions. Never forgetting the humble 
 station from which he had risen, he had nevertheless a consciousness of 
 
 * Besides these, an essay on the Utopian System, read before the society by Reid, was 
 printed in the Glasgow Courier, and is to be found reprinted in Appendix, No. 2., to 
 Arthur's Discourses. 
 
 + Richardson's Life of Arthur, p. 315. App. to Discourses. 
 
 t A volume of Moor's essays was printed by R. & A. Foulis in 1759, 12mo. For a 
 list of its contents, see Orig. Pap., No. IV. He also read an essay on the End of Tragedy 
 according to Aristotle, which was published in 1763, 12mo. It was afterAvards reprinted 
 by Andrew Foulis, printer to the University, 12mo. 1794. 
 
 II Richardson's Letter, p. 22. For a list of the essays read by Robert and Andrew 
 Foulis, see Orig. Pap., No. V. Andrew Foulis's discourses were on miscellaneous subjects.
 
 17 
 
 moving precisely in his proper sphere, and of having deserved that dis- 
 tinction which he had attained.* 
 
 The success which liad attended the efforts of the Foiilises as printers, 
 induced the elder brother to extend the sphere of his usefulness. The 
 following extracts, from what appears to have been the first draft of a 
 letter, contain a rapid sketch of his plans for fourteen years previous to 
 the institution of the Academy. No apology will, therefore, be neces- 
 sary for the style in which it is written. " In the years 1738 & 1789," 
 says he, " having gone abroad, and refided for feveral months at each 
 time at Paris, we had frequent opportunities of converfing with gentle- 
 men of every liberal profeffion, and to obferve the conne6lion and 
 mutual influence of the Arts & Sciences upon one another & upon 
 Society. We had opportunities of obferving the influence of invention 
 in Drawing & Modelling on many manufa6lures. And 'tis obvious that 
 whatever nation has the lead in fafhions mufl previoufly have invention 
 in drawing diffuf'd, otherwife they can never rife above copying their 
 neighbours. Tho' we were convinced of this early, and wifli'd to fee the 
 manufa6lures of our own country enjoying the like advantages, yet the 
 attempt requiring more money than we were maflers of, we contented 
 ourfelves with importing old editions of Greek and Latin Authors, 
 which were very much wanted at that time in Scotland. — In the year 
 1743, I went to France alone partly to try the fortune of our firfl 
 efTays in Greek & Latin Printing, partly to bring home fome Manu- 
 fcripts, partly to colle6l more ancient authors, and to have brought a 
 fingle Graver, if a good one could have been had on reafonable terms. 
 The Rebellion coming on foon after, prevented all fcheming for a time : 
 Soon after it we found ourfelves engag'd in the printing of Cicero & 
 fome other expenfive works, which occupied all our time, money & 
 
 * Richardson's Letter, pp. 6, 7. 
 c
 
 Y 
 
 18 
 
 credit. In the year 1751, I went abroad for the 4th time in company 
 with a younger brotlier, and fpent near two years : the firft montiis 
 were fpent in Holland in exchanging Books of our own Printing 
 whether Greek, Latin or Englifli, and in enquu'ing after affiflances for 
 adorning an Edition of Plato. Before this journey was undertaken, the 
 fcheme of an Academy had been pretty well digefled, and often the 
 fnbje6l of debate in private converfation."* 
 
 Robert Foulis, having previously sent home his brother with a 
 painter, an engraver, and a copper-plate printer, whom he had engaged 
 in his service, returned to Scotland in 1753, and soon after instituted 
 his Academy for painting, engraving, moulding, modelling, and drawing. 
 The University allowed him the use of what is now the Faculty Hall as 
 an exhibition room for his pictures, and of several other rooms for his 
 students; and three Glasgow merchants, with a liberality which reflected 
 the highest credit upon themselves, afterwards became partners in the 
 undertaking. These were Mr Campbell of Clathic, Mr Glasford of 
 Dougalston, and Mr Archibald Ingram, — the last a man certainly of 
 no literary pretensions, nor even liberally educated, but possessed of 
 intelligence and public spirit. The students, according to the proposed 
 plan, after having given proofs of genius at home, were to be sent abroad 
 at the expense of the Academy. 
 
 The whole scheme seems generally to have been considered as ro- 
 mantic, and we have Foulis's own testimony, that *' there feemed to be 
 a pretty general emulation who fliould run it mofl down." This oppo- 
 sition, however, only increased his determination, and the Academy was 
 continued long after he might have known that it would ultimately ruin 
 him, if persevered in.t 
 
 * Incomplete Letter by R. Foulis, without date or address. — Ld. Huchan's MSS. 
 t For a farther account of the Academy, with the documents relating to it which havi^ 
 been preserved, see Catalogue of Pictures, 6cc. reprinted in this volume.
 
 19 
 
 Foulis often displayed a degree of firmness bordering, as in the pre- 
 sent instance, on obstinacy. It will readily be believed that many of 
 his friends attempted to dissnade him from his unpromising design, — 
 amonfi: these was the Right Honourable Charles Townshend. In a con- 
 versation witli the two brothers, that celebrated statesman (who enter- 
 tained a great regard for them) took occasion to point out, in his usual 
 forcible manner, the disadvantages under which they must labour, in 
 establishing their Academy, and its almost certain ultimate fliilure. He 
 addressed them with an eloquence so unpressive, and exhibited such 
 views of loss and disappointment, as converted Andrew to his opinion, 
 and affected him even to the shedding of tears. On turning, however, 
 to Robert, from whom he expected acquiescence, if no farther manifesta- 
 tion of his feehngs, he found his resolution unabated.* 
 
 Nor was this the only dissuasive he received. His friend Mr Har- 
 vock, secretary to the Earl of Northumberland, writes to him on the 
 20th of December, 1753, in the same strain : — 
 
 " My Lady [Northumberland] v/ill be glad to fee your Prints when 
 finillied ; but I cannot help thinking that my Lord is of my opinion, 
 that a correal and well-printed Book would be more agreeable to us 
 from your Prefs than any thing elfe. Thefe will ornament, and with 
 great luftre too, as well as real profit, the Libraries of Popes and Princes, 
 while your Prints lye mouldering in a Dufly Corner. Correal Printing, 
 in an elegant form, is, I own, both laborious and cxpenfive, but then it 
 has an intrinfic merit which flamps a value upon it and the Printer to 
 future ages ; and the Book mull be efleemed as long as Reading is in 
 falhion. Elzevir was once in high efleem, and even fo late as my time. 
 For what ? for the beauty of his types, — but now our young men find 
 
 * Richardson's Letter, pp. 11, 12. 
 
 c 2
 
 20 
 
 him fo very incorre6l tliat they ufe him chiefly both at Schools and 
 Colleges in certain remote places where people may read a Page before 
 they apply the leaf properly. I Ihall be veiy glad to fee your Tacitus 
 kc. when they come abroad. The Printing of the Dublin Edition is 
 not quite to my mind. Ld. and Lady Northumberland will return from 
 Bath in ten days, and then your Parcell will be opened. I really believe 
 from what I have feen and heard, that not only the D. of Argyle, but 
 all men of Senfe, wilh you more fuccefs in Printing than in Painting and 
 Sculpture. We are overrun with Prints of all kinds ; but good Print- 
 ing will be deem'd a novelty lince the days of R. Stephens, who minded 
 only one thing j and pray confider, he lay under more difadvantages 
 than you do now. Print for pofterity and profper." 
 
 * The following letter, containing an outline of the operations of the 
 Glasgow press, was probably written in answer to that of Harvock soon 
 after Fouhs's return from the continent, — apparently about tlie beginning 
 of 1754. 
 
 *' I received and read jufl now your very obliging and kind letter. 
 Among the fii^fl things I did after coming home was, to caufe gather 
 out and few them that I might be fure they were complete. My inten- 
 tion was, to have fent them off immediately but my Brother Andrew 
 perfuaded me to delay until a new Edition of Mr. Hutchefon's Elements 
 of Moral Philofophy was finiihed, and an Edition of Rofcommon's 
 Poems, the lad of which is finifhed this day and the Books go off' with 
 the Carrier to be Shipt, dire6led for my Lady Northumberland, at 
 Northumberland Iloufe, London : as to the reft of my apology, it was 
 \ anity made me hearken to the voice of my Brother. I was fenfiblc 
 tiiat all we have printed in Englifh is too inconfiderable for the quantity, 
 being chiefly a few fmall Books in which we have aimed rather at neat- 
 nefs than fplendor; and thefe not all books of entertainment. Such as
 
 21 
 
 they are, I have put them together, leaving you to reje6l what you 
 think improper. However, I hope we Ihall with time print a variety in 
 Englifli more fuitable to the favorable idea that her Ladyihip is pleafed 
 to entertain of us. I own, I ought to have wrote to you in good man- 
 ners, and I might have wrote a dozen letters with lefs trouble than I 
 felt for negle6ling that. Since I came down, I have been very buly 
 going thro' a multiplicity of things that waited my arrival and I have 
 been fo negligent as to writing that I have fcarce wrote to any friend 
 in London fince I left it. The Prefs is juft now employed in printing- 
 Mr. Hutchefon's Large Syflem of Moral Philofophy, for whicii my 
 Lord Northumberland is already a Subfcriber. I look upon this as a 
 capital work for promoting the caufe of virtue, accompanied with jull 
 notions of government and Liberty. Tacitus is above three-fourths 
 advanced, from the quarto Gronovius Edition, in the fame form, letter 
 & paper with Cicero. The Aminta in Italian is jull finiflied, ni the 
 fame letter with our Lucretius. Plutarch's treatife on hearing tlie 
 Greek Poets & Euripides' Oreftes are likewife now come from tlie 
 Prefs. We are alfo printing Shakefpear according to Mr Pope's Second 
 Edition. The firll volume was printed before I came down, and as the 
 Plays are all printed fo as to fell feparately, we are going on with the 
 reft not in order, but fii-ft with thofe which are moft efteemed. I have 
 not yet begun to print Plato, not only becaufe I would have all prior 
 obligations difcharged, but becaufe I would have as few things to repent 
 in the execution as poffible. I would have all helps amalfed, and at 
 leaft one Volume entirely ready for the Prefs before it be begun. 1 
 would be thoroughly fatiffied with regard to the elegance of the Gieek 
 chara6ler which I ufe. I would have fome refearches for finding a 
 better Ink than ordinary, fully made out in the meantime. I was in- 
 formed laft poft that there is a large packet of collations from Plato 
 from the Vatican. Mr. Moor, who thinks to have the iirft Volume
 
 22 
 
 ready for the Prefs in three months, is greatly pleafed with y® able Tra- 
 guier's Commentary, which perhaps we will print entire. Our Lucretius 
 is out of print or near by, fo that I lliall remember Comino's Gloflary 
 on reprinting it. I will likewife take the firll opportunity of procuring 
 Copies of his Plautus and Tully de Officiis, the one of which I have 
 never printed, and the other I propofe to reprint foon. As the world 
 had once too high an admiration of Ariftotle without underftanding or 
 perhaps making the proper ufe of him, they have been for fome time fo 
 much in the other extreme that few learned men have any general 
 acquaintance with his works, fo as to know what they really contain. 
 A few writers, like Mr Harris, might perhaps raife fuch a curiofity as 
 might make him a little more a la mode. The prefent edition of Tacitus, 
 which was half printed before I came here, is [in] a form that will not 
 anfwer well with Notes, but if we fliould print it fome other time in a 
 hirger form and chara6ler."* 
 
 The edition of Plato, mentioned in this letter, had been projected as 
 early as 1746, and it appears that proposals and a specimen of the work 
 were printed about 1749, — soon after the large edition of Cicero's 
 works was completed. In July, 1751, it has been already mentioned, 
 Foulis went abroad, — carrying with him letters of recommendation from 
 his brother-in-law, Dr Moor, to the Abbe Salier and the learned M. 
 Capperonier, both of the Royal Library of Paris. He first spent some 
 time in Holland, in the expectation of receiving assistance from Hem- 
 sterhuse and Alberti, and before returning to his native country had 
 seen the best Manuscripts, and had given orders for collations from 
 those in the Vatican and National Libraries. After his return, it 
 would seem tiiat the project was still under consideration, and that 
 
 * This sentence is left incomplete.
 
 23 
 
 Dr Moor, who from the multipUcity of his engagements had formerly 
 dechned taking charge of it, now undertook the editorship.* The 
 design w^as not abandoned till 17<59, by which time Foulis, in his en- 
 thusiastic love of the Arts, had extended his Academy far beyond the 
 limits of prudence. 
 
 According to the plan proposed by Foulis, the Plays of Shakespeare 
 were printed for several successive years in a separate form. '* King 
 Lear" was published in 1753,—" Richard III." in I758,— " Coriolanus" 
 in 1760 ; but it was not till six years after that they appeared complete. 
 The small paper was in eight, and *' a few copies printed on the fineit 
 foolfcap in Sixteen Volumes 8vo." 
 
 The following letter from Sir John Dalrymple, though evidently 
 written in the style of a patron, contains some curious information, and 
 is dictated by the warmest attentions to FouHs' interests. Lord Buchan 
 marks it as " chara^leriftic." 
 
 Sir, — I have changed my mind about the Dedication to Mr. Hamil- 
 ton's Poems. I would have it fland " the friend of William Hamilton," 
 but I affent to your opinion to have fomething more to exprefs Mr. 
 Crawfurd's Chara6ler. I know none fo able to do this as my friend 
 Mr. Smith ; I beg it therefore earneftly that he will write the Infcrip- 
 tion and with all the elegance & all the feelingnefs which he, above the 
 reft of mankind, is able to exprefs. This is a thing that touches me 
 very nearly, and therefore I beg a particular anfwer as to what he fays 
 to it. The many happy and the many flattering hours which he has 
 fpent with Mr. Hamilton & Mr. Crawfurd makes me think that he will 
 account his ufual indolence a crime upon this occafion. I beg you will 
 
 * Dr Moor's Notes and Collations got into the hands of Mr John Reekie, and were 
 added to his copy of Ficinus' Plato. See Bibl. Reekiana, No. 39.
 
 24 
 
 make my excufe fbr not wryting him this night about this. I conlider 
 wryting to you upon tliis head to be wryting to him. 
 
 Your things are come to Town. I am completely & perre6lly pleafed 
 with your Bulls. The Carrier let the large Antoninus fall jull at Yair's 
 Shop Door, by wliich means the head was knocked oif from the flioul- 
 ders J you will give Dire6lions how to mend this, and in the mean time 
 pleafe to make the Carrier pay the expence, becaufe without making an 
 example thefe fellows will break your things every time they bring them in. 
 I am much furprizcd you did not fend in the moft beautiful of all your 
 tilings, the Faustina & young Antininos.* I was much difappointed in 
 the picture in the Apollo teaching the young man to play on the Harp. 
 It is by no means executed with Cochran's ufuall accuracy : the wrift 
 of the young man is too fmall, his knee too large, his features jull bor- 
 dering on the Grotefque, and the carnation of both the colour of the 
 P^arth. Your lads ought to copy the Pi6lures that they fee exa6lly, in 
 the Dimenfions that they fee them, inllead of trulling to themfelves to 
 make a little thing of a large one, or a large thing of a little one. The 
 Holy Family of Widows Scholar! is beloved, and Cochran's Saint ad- 
 mired, but the things that will take moll, by which I mean that will fell 
 bell, are Lawndfcapes. The moll ignorant can judge of the impropriety 
 of a human figure or a human paflion, but it mull be only one accuf- 
 tomed to look at the beautys of Nature, who can judge of a falfe llep in 
 a Lawndfcape. A Lawndfcape, too, hits the prefent talle of ornament- 
 ing a room, by which I mean, making it more ugly than it naturally is ; 
 fbr which reafon I beg that you would employ your Boys in doing the 
 bell of your Lawndfcapes becaufe I can make you certain that thefe 
 
 * Tliis letter, which has been dictated to a blundering amanuensis, is grievously misspelt. 
 The name should have been Antinous. 
 f Probably of Guido's scholar.
 
 25 
 
 are the things that will fell befl. In the Hillory-Pidlures that you fend 
 in, I beg you will take the advice of Mr Smith and Dr Black. Your 
 prefent fcheme fliould be, to execute, not what you may think the befl, 
 but what will fell the befl: In the firfl, you may be a better judge, fince 
 you are the Mafler of a great Academa, but in the lafl I think their 
 advice will be of ufe to you. Your Angel Delivering St Paul is too 
 large a Pi6lure. Small things executed with care, will, I imagine, bring 
 you mofl in vogue : Such are The Holy Family, The Reading Saint, 
 and The Three Angels Playing. 
 
 The Subfcription Paper, which I charged myfelf with, is now at 
 Ninety Guineas. There are three more out, in the hands of Mr. Adam 
 FergufTon, Dr Cullen and James Adams. I have not yet got them in, 
 but expe6l Twenty Guineas amongfl the three. In the prefent view I 
 have of the thing, I think I can carry my own Paper Twenty Guineas 
 further, befides which I have a chance of Twenty Guineas more, for 
 having by accident appoitered* of a very worthlefs Anceflor of a very 
 good Lady who has folicited me for it. I have confented to make her a 
 prefent of it, provided flie will bring Twenty Guineas of Subfcription s 
 to the common caufe, fo that by the end of the winter, I think I may 
 infure you of a Hundred & fifty Guineas, after which it is the fault of 
 your Town and of your own Country, if they cannot fill up the remain- 
 ing Fifty Guineas fo as to make the fubfcription Two hundred Guineas. 
 I wifli you would get application made to Shawfield, for I have no com- 
 munication with him. You need make no general application through 
 your Town for ten days till I have got the Subfcriptions together, and 
 then I fliall write a Circular Letter to many of your people with copies 
 of the propofals & of the Subfcription. 
 
 If all this fliould fucceed to our wiflies, I fuppofe, my dear Robert, 
 
 * A Portrait ? 
 
 D
 
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 you will think that the whole country of Scotland rifes in your caule, 
 but let me tell you, and let it make fome impreffion upon you, that 
 you are greatly millaken. With all the fine names that you fee at this 
 Paper, I allure you that the motives of the Subfcribers need by no 
 means encourage you. Some giv^e their money, becaufe they are vain 
 to do it ; others becaufe they are afliamed not to do it : Many repented 
 the moment they had done it. Some fubfcribe out of regard to me, 
 and others merely becaufe they were teafed ; and of all this fubfcription 
 which you fay, flatters you fo much, there are not five men who would 
 give Ten Pounds to fave you from the Gallows or the Academa from the 
 flames ; for which reafon I do earneftly befeech you to retrench your 
 Scheme and expence, infl;ead of extending it upon the hopes of the good 
 will of your countrymen ; for take my word for it again, very few of 
 them give one fiirthing either for the fine arts or for you, and for that 
 reafon it is your duty in common fenfe to draw in your fcheme, to fell 
 off all fuperfluities, and to bring it into a mercantile affair as much as 
 you can. The Devil, without cloven feet and without a Tail is infinitely 
 worfe than the Devil with both, and this ti'uth you will find if you 
 launch out into immoderate expence on the profpe6l of fuch a benevo- 
 lence and fuch a love of Beauty as reigns in your own heart, and in ex- 
 ceeding few other places. 
 
 The Paris-Plaifler work feems to me a folid fcheme, if you contrive 
 your prices fo as to underfell the London mercate here, and yet to make 
 money to yourfelf I once thought your calling of Prints likewife a 
 Iblid fcheme, becaufe they cofl you little, and if you got half nothing 
 for them you was llill a gainer in cent per cent, but by some fatality or 
 perhaps fome natural reafon which you may be able to account for, this 
 has never come to any thing. I wifh you would difpatch your flupid 
 Boys, and keep only the choice Spirits among them fo as to leffen your 
 expence. Your are not to truft to this fubfcription, for in the firfl:
 
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 place of this hundred & fifty guineas you will not draw above a hundred 
 and thirty in, and belides it is a chance if one half of your Subfcribers 
 do not withdraw next year ; So again & again, my good friend, draw in 
 your arms. 
 
 It is of confequence to you to be able to fupply the mercate at Edin- 
 burgh while the iron is yet hott ; for that reafon I beg you will fend in 
 one copy of every good Bufl that you have to be Shown in Fleming & 
 Yair's Shop, and belides that, with all the expedition you can that you 
 will likewife fend in two more copies of each to be kept in Boxes in 
 fome Wareroom till people make their choice of the different Bufls, for 
 it is in thefe chiefly that I expe6l fale. I once thought it would have 
 been befl for you to have allowed Commiffions to be fent to you to 
 Glafgow, but I fee now that will not do, as people are impatient to have 
 their things dire6tly, & will take if delivered immediately what he [they] 
 will not take if delivered eight days after this. Likewife fend a few 
 more copies of your Pi6lures to be fold as any Body offers : Send Cata- 
 logues too of the Maflers, the Boy's name, the price, and likewife of the 
 name of the Bull & the price. None of thefe things are done hitherto. 
 Lord Selkirk talked to me of a proje6l to get a Salary fettled upon you 
 by the Government : he fpoke of this as if he had thought of it before 
 hand, tho' like a man that did not care to fpeak of it unlefs he could 
 fpeak of it with certainty. You will fee him at palling & may talk to 
 him. Further in the way, the Duke of Argyle fpeaks of you and with 
 the fpirit of Mr Pitt's minillry I fancy the thing may not be quite an 
 Idea. Whether it is an Idea or not I am going to give you a piece of 
 trouble : be fo good as make out a Catalogue of your Pi6lures, and as 
 far as you can of your Bulls, Books of Drawings and Prints, — Secondly, 
 of your Boys and how employed, — 3dly, of the people who have lludied 
 under you with a view to the Mechanical Arts, — and laftly, Give fome 
 account of the profpe6ls which you think you have of being of ufe either 
 
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 to the Meclianical or the Fine Arts of your Country. Frame this into 
 a Memorial & fend it to me ; I fhali have it tryed here by fome who 
 wifli well to you, and as I go to London in the Spring I fliall, together 
 with Mr. Wedderburn & Mr. Elliot, conlider what are the moft prudent 
 meafures to take for your fake, or wliether to take any. Mr. Smith is 
 too bufy or too indolent, but I flatter myfelf Dr. Black will be happy to 
 make out this Memorial for you. 
 
 Let me know if I have any chance of feeing you this winter. I have 
 none of being at Glafgow, and therefore wifli you & Mr. Smith w^ould 
 come here, or you by yourfelf would come here in the Chrillmafs vacance. 
 
 I am, Sir, Your moft Humble Serv'' 
 
 John Dalrymple. 
 
 Edin-- 1 Dec. I707. 
 
 The work referred to in the beginning of this letter was an edition of 
 Hamilton of Bangour's Poems. They had first issued from the press of 
 Robert and Andrew Foulis in 1749, without the name of the author, and 
 avowedly without his knowledge or consent. 
 
 " No writings of this kind," say the editors, *' ever had a better claim 
 to the indulgence of the public than the following poems, as this col- 
 le6lion is publiflied not only without the author's confent but without 
 his knowledge, and therefore in juftice to him, the editors muft take 
 upon themfelves any faults or imperfe6lions that may be found in it. 
 
 " One inducement to print them," they continue, " was to draw from 
 the author a more perfe6l edition when he returns to this country, and 
 if oiu" i'anlty attempt lliall be the occafion of producing a work that may 
 be an honour to this part of the kingdom, we lliall glory in what we 
 have done. 
 
 " What brought us at firft to think of this little undertaking was the 
 concern fome of the author's friends exj)reHed to us at the edition of his
 
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 noble poem of Contemplation lately publillied from an incorre6l manu- 
 fcript : this determined us to give an edition of it lefs unworthy of the 
 author and to join to it every piece of his that had been printed at dif- 
 ferent times, and we prevailed likewife on a friend of his, tho' with fome 
 difficulty, to give us a fmall number of pieces that had never before 
 been printed, fome of which had been handed about in manufcript and 
 might have been printed with the tranfcribers errors by others. It is 
 owing to the delicacy of this friend of the author's, that this edition is 
 not enriched with many original poems and fome beautiful tranllations 
 from Pindar & other ancient poets, both Greek and Roman, that are in 
 his poiTeffion, but which he would not permit to be publiflied." 
 
 It is not wonderful that a second edition of poems which had been 
 compared to those of Dryden or Pope should now be called for. It 
 accordingly appeared with the author's name, and dedicated " to the 
 memory of Mr. William Craufurd, Merchant in Glafgow, the friend of 
 Mr. Hamilton."* 
 
 These poems appear for some time to have attracted very little notice, 
 and were, in fact, becoming almost forgotten, when the public attention 
 was called to them by a criticism in the Lounger from the pen of Pro- 
 fessor Richardson. In spite, however, of all their " regular delign, jull 
 fentiments, fanciful invention, plealing feniibility, elegant di6tion, and 
 fmooth verlification," they are now little read, — whether deservedly so, 
 we shall not determine. Mr Richardson has given them their full 
 amount of praise, — he shows (or attempts to show) that all the qualities 
 above mentioned will be found in the poem of " Contemplation," wliile 
 "the Braes of Yarrow" is pronounced to be " one of the finell ballads 
 ever written." The opinion of Pinkerton on the same subject seems 
 
 * The edition published at Edinburgh in 1760, with the author's last corrections, and a 
 profile of him by Strange, is the best edition of Hamilton's Works.
 
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 now to be generally considered the more correct. " It is," says he, 
 " in very bad talle and quite unlike the ancient Scottifli manner, being 
 even inferior to the poorefl of the old Ballads with this title. His 
 repeated words and lines cauiing an eternal jingle, his confufed nar- 
 ration and afFedled pathos throw this piece among the rubbilli of 
 Poetry." 
 
 To proceed in our account of the operations of the Glasgow press. 
 The Select Society of Edinburgh had in the year 1755 determined to 
 give premiums for improvements in the Arts, Sciences, Manufactures, 
 and Agriculture. " The Art of Printing," say the Society, " in this 
 country requires no encouragement; yet, as to pafs it by unnoticed, 
 were flighting the merit of thofe by whofe means alone it has attained 
 that eminence, it was Refolved, That the bell printed and mofl corre6l 
 Book which fhall be produced within a limited time be diflinguilhed by 
 an honorary reward."* 
 
 They accordingly offered " a Silver Medal with a proper device and 
 infcription" for the finest and most correct book " of at leafl ten fheets."t 
 In April of the following year the reward was adjudged to Robert & 
 Andrew Foulis for their folio edition of the Hymns of Callimachus.1: 
 Next year they obtained the Society's medal for their third edition of 
 Horace as a Latin, — and their folio edition of Homer's Iliad as a Greek 
 l)ook. The last of these works is well known as one of the finest classics 
 ever produced at any press. By the preface, it appears to have been 
 printed at the expense of the professors in the University. It was 
 intended as a trial, and in case of succeeding it was proposed to print all 
 
 * Scots Magazine, 1755, pp. 126, 7. 
 
 + Rules and Orders of the Society, pp. 2-1 
 
 X Scots Magazine, 1756, p. 195. This edition was accompanied with engravings done 
 
 at the Academy. Tliey are not of any value, either for correctness of drawing or execution.
 
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 the Greek and Roman classics " with tlie fame elegance and accuracy." 
 The text was taken from Dr Clarke's quarto edition, published in 1729, 
 and was collated with that of Henry Stephens, which they imitated ni 
 the forms of the letters. They do not appear, however, to have fol- 
 lowed Clarke in the accentuation, and the words are all printed at full 
 length, in both which particulars their edition has been considered pre- 
 ferable.* After having been six times revised by different persons,! it 
 was printed off in two folio volumes, — the small paper at the price of a 
 guinea, and the large at a guinea and a half in sheets. 
 
 In 1758 the medal was again obtained for Foulis' edition of the 
 Odyssey. The competing parties w^ere not limited either to the form 
 or number of sheets, the only conditions being that of the books offered 
 in competition there should be at least two hundred and fifty copies 
 printed for sale, and that the printers' names should be affixed to them.1i 
 In the following year the Glasgow edition of the minor works of Homer 
 was declared the best specimen produced. 1| During all this period the 
 only successful rivals of the FouHses were Hamilton, Balfour, and Neill, 
 of Edinburgh, who in 1758 gained a prize for their edition of Terence, 
 got up under the care of the late Mr Alexander Smellie, at that time 
 the corrector of their press. § 
 
 It was about this period (1757 or 1758) that Robert Foulis became 
 acquainted with the late William Richardson, Esquire, afterwards pro- 
 fessor of humanity in the College of Glasgow^ With this elegant scholar 
 he had much intercourse, — and it is to one of the papers Richardson left 
 
 * Monthly Review, October, 1757. 
 
 f Twice by the corrector of Foiilis's press, — then by Andrew Foulis, — by one of the 
 editors, and afterwards twice by both. 
 X Scots Magazine, 1738, p. 44. 
 II Ibid, 1759, p. 214. 
 § Kerr's Life of Smellie. vol. i. p. 29.
 
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 behind him that we are principally indebted for the little knowledge we 
 can now acquire of the personal history of the Foulises. 
 
 The book shop of the printers to the University w^as then, and for 
 many years afterwards, within the precincts of the college ; and was at 
 this time a place of resort with students, who either liked to talk about, 
 or look at, books.* It was here that Foulis and Richardson first met. 
 
 It will, undoubtedly, appear to the reader a singular feature in Foulis's 
 character, that he should choose to associate even with the youngest 
 students, and to become a member of their literary clubs ; but this may 
 be easily accounted for. Besides the gratification he had in displaying 
 liis sentiments upon literary and philosophical subjects, he believed that 
 the knowledge he imparted, and the example he exhibited, might be 
 useful to his juvenile auditors. Nothing could be more amusing or 
 more interesting, according to Professor Richardson, than the literary 
 discussions of the elder Foulis. In these, as he had a good deal of 
 natural, though turbid, eloquence, he sometimes indulged at consider- 
 able length. The fashion of the times did not impose upon him a 
 scrupulous attention to a restrained or castigated manner ; while his 
 countenance, which indicated at once intellect and sensibility, and his 
 frame, which was not of eminent stature, were often impressed with the 
 vehemence of his oratory.t 
 
 To attempt any account of the Foulises during the following ten 
 years, would in fact be only giving a dry detail of works printed at 
 their press. 
 
 Towards the end of I767, Dr Bcattie, who appears by this time to 
 liave got acquainted with them, informs us that at Robert Foulis' request 
 he liad applied for, and obtained, from Gray, the poet, permission to 
 
 * Ricliardson's Letter, p. 1. 
 + Ibid, p. (i.
 
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 have an edition of Iiis poems printed at Glasgow. Gray liad before 
 given Dodsley a similar permission;* and as the London bookseller had 
 already gone to press, it was necessary that our Scotch printers should 
 use all diligence. In reference to this subject, Dr Beattie writes thus 
 to his friend Mr Arbuthnot : — 
 
 "The writing out a copy of Mr. Gray's Poems for the Prefs has 
 occupied me the lall fortnight. They are to be printed at Glafgow by 
 Foulis, with the Author's own permiffion, which I folicited and obtained : 
 and he fent me four folio pages of notes and additions to be inferted in 
 the new edition. The Notes are chiefly illuftrations of the two Pin- 
 daric Odes, more copious, indeed, than I fliould have thought neceflary, 
 but I underftand he is not a little chagrined at the complaints which 
 have been made of their obfcurity ; and he tells me, that he wrote thefe 
 Notes out of fpite. * The long Story' is left out in this edition, at 
 which I am not well pleafed ; for though it has neither head nor tail, 
 beginning nor end, it abounds in humorous defcription, and the verlifl- 
 cation is exquifitely fine. Three new Poems (never before printed) are 
 inferted, two of which are imitations from the Norwegian, and one is 
 an imitation from the Welfli. He verfified them, he fays, ' becaufe 
 there is a wild fpirit in them which flruck him.' From the firfl of the 
 Norwegian pieces he has taken the hint of the iveh, in the Ode on the 
 
 Welfli bards ; but the imitation far exceeds the original I expect 
 
 the book will be out in a few weeks, if Foulis be diligent, which it is 
 his interefl: to be, as there is another edition of the fame juft now print- 
 
 * Gray to Dr Beattie, December 24tli, 1767. JNIason's Life of Gray, Letter 56. 
 " I rejoice," says he, " to be in the hands of Mr. Foulis, who has the laudable ambition of 
 furpaffing his predeceffors, the Etiennes and Elzevirs, as well in Literature, as in the pro- 
 per art of his profeflion." — Letter 57.
 
 34 
 
 ing by Dodfley. I gave him notice of this, by Mr. Gray's defire, two 
 months ago, but it did not in the leafl abate his zeal for the undertaking."* 
 
 The Glasgow edition accordingly appeared about the middle of tlie 
 same year in quarto, — " one of the mofl elegant pieces of Printing," says 
 the author of the Minstrel, " that the Glafgow Prefs or any other Prefs 
 has ever produced. It does honour to every perfon concerned in it, — 
 to Mr. Foulis the Printer, and even to me the Publiilier, as well as to 
 the Author."t 
 
 Contrary to the expectations, probably, of every one except Foulis 
 himself, his edition was rapidly sold off, although Dodsley had before 
 ghitted the London market with two impressions, one of fifteen hundred, 
 and the other of seven hundred and fifty copies, " both indeed far in- 
 ferior to that of Glafgow, but fold at half tlie price."! Foulis found 
 himself a considerable gainer, and was, to use Gray's expression, 
 " magnificent in his gratitude." He offered his author a present of 
 his Homer in four volumes folio, or the Greek Historians in twenty- 
 nine volumes duodecimo, — the first of which seems to have been ac- 
 cepted.ll 
 
 A folio edition of Milton's Poems (which appeared in 1770) seems 
 next to have been proposed by our printers. This splendid work was 
 published by subscription, and for some hints respecting it they were 
 again indebted to the friendship of Beattie. The letter relating to it is 
 one of the very few of Foulis* papers which have escaped destruction. — 
 It is now printed for the first time. 
 
 • Beattie's Letters. Lond. 1820. vol. i. p. 4? — 9. 
 
 f Sir \V. Forbes' Life of Dr Beattie, vol. i. p. 111. 8vo. edition. 
 
 X Gray to Dr Beattie, October Slst, 1768. 
 
 11 Ibid, July Hith, 1769.
 
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 Aberdeen, QOth Jiaie, I77O. 
 Dear Sir, — I received your letter of the 10th of May, and about a 
 fortnight after, tlie Books came to hand. The Milton is wonderfully 
 fine. It is indeed the mofh magnificent Book I have ever feen, and 
 feems to be perfe6lly correal. I am very happy to fee that the hints I 
 propof'd relating to Apoftrophes have obtained your approbation. The 
 omiflion of thofe unnecelTary chara6lers has a very good efFe6l on the 
 eye, and will, I am convinced, give general fatif faction. I hope you 
 will foon fet about Virgil in the fame form. My former hints have been 
 fo well received, that I may pofTibly hazard a few on this fubje6l alfo. 
 I would not wifli to fee either the Culex or the Civis in this proje6led 
 Edition, being thoroughly convinced that they are not by Virgil but by 
 fome much later hand. They are befides altogether unworthy of the 
 Mantuan bard. I could offer many arguments in proof of this opinion, 
 but I flatter myfelf they will not be neceffary. The Bucolics, Georgics, 
 and jEneid are in my judgment the whole of Virgil's works now extant. 
 I have two curious and, I believe, rare editions of this author : the firfl 
 by Daniel Heinfius printed by Elzevir in the year 1636, and the other 
 by his Son Nicholas Heinfius printed by Elzevir in I676. The lafl is 
 by much the better, and is generally acknowledged to be the very befl 
 edition of Virgil. If you cannot find it elfewhere, my copy is at your 
 fervice. There are fome various readings from the Medicean and other 
 Manufcripts, which are of confequence, and therefore ought not to be 
 omitted in a corre6l edition of Virgil. In regard to thefe I have fome 
 written notes by me, which might probably be of fome ufe. If you 
 think fo, I fliall very readily communicate them. By the Bearer, Pro- 
 feffor Traill, I have fent payment of your account, viz, two guineas for 
 Homer, — four and fixpence for Epi6letus, Anacreon and Cebes, — 
 a guinea for Milton, — Two pounds thirteen Shillings for the Greek 
 Hiflorians, — and thirteen Shillings for my copy of Milton on fmall 
 
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 36 
 
 paper, wliich you forgot to put into the account, — in all £G : 13 : 6. 
 I am much obliged to you for the concern you Ihow about my EfTay, 
 and am very curious to know your opinion of it, and Ihall be very happy 
 if it obtains your approbation. The greatefl merit of it is, that it is 
 written witli a good defign. It will offend many, but may I hope be of 
 ufe to fome : nay, if I am not mifinformed, it has been fo already. 
 It was not without long confideration that I ventured it abroad in its 
 prefent form. There is a boldnefs in many of the reflections, which 
 after much thinking I thought it befl not to alter, though I hear it has 
 given much offence to many of the Literati of your country. I have 
 hardly time to add, that I truly am, Dear Sir, Your moll obedient 
 Humble Serv'- 
 
 J. Beattie. 
 
 The edition of Virgil here mentioned never appeared.* The same 
 determination which had prompted Foulis, contrary to all advice, to 
 establish his Academy, had led him to continue it long after it might 
 have been evident to himself, as it was to every one else, that it was 
 embarrassing him in his operations as a printer, without the slightest pro- 
 bability of ultimate remuneration. 
 
 The prosperity of the Foulises may from this period be considered as 
 on the decline, and the energy with which their business had been 
 conducted seems now to have been completely wanting.t * The Seven 
 Cartoons of Raphael, formerly at Hampton Court, and now in the 
 
 * The Works of Virgil were printed by Andrew Foulis (Robert's Son) in two 
 vols, folio, in 177i», " as a companion to Milton and Homer." (G. Paton to R. Gough, 
 Esq. 21st December, 1778. MS. Adv. Lib.) 
 
 ■j- " Foulis' conduct is unaccountable. (I) blulli at the breach of promife & bad treat- 
 ment : — ^\'llat need I fay ? Many complain in the fame ftyle of them." (Geo. Paton to 
 R. Gough, Esq. 2Sth September, 1772).
 
 37 
 
 Queen's Palace/ appeared, indeed, in 1773, but they must be considered 
 rather as one of tlie last efforts of their Academy than of their press. 
 They continued to print for two years longer, till the death of Andrew, 
 which took place on the 18th of September, 1775.* He had accom- 
 panied a stranger to the high ground adjoining the ancient residence of 
 the family of Montrose, for the purpose of having a complete view of 
 the city. He was here attacked by an apoplectic fit, and died almost 
 immediately. Robert was sent for and had the body conveyed to his 
 house, though from the suddenness of the event he could hardly be 
 persuaded that his brother was dead. He hung over the body when it 
 was stretched out, and called upon him again and again ; but Andrew 
 could make no reply. t 
 
 " The two Foulis[es]," says Dr Wodrow, " in fpite of their poverty 
 and birth, were par nohile fratrum. I never indeed faw a more affec- 
 tionate pair. They feem to have been made for one another. Though 
 limilar in their good difpolitions, they were totally oppolite in their 
 genius or peculiar tiu'n of mind. Neither of them, when feparated 
 from the other, could have done much for himfelf or the world ; but, 
 like the members of the human body, 1 Cor. xii. 20, 21. & 9, or like the 
 higher and lower orders in a community, they were admirably fitted by 
 an all-dire6ting Providence, by their conjun6lion and union, to do much 
 in their flation, for the honor of their country and the general improve- 
 ment of Society.''^ Andrew had during their long and celebrated career 
 laboured with the most slavish industry. After the commencement of 
 the Academy, the superintendence of the printing, bookselling, and 
 bookbinding departments of their business devolved upon him. Besides 
 these, he had every evening in winter an auction of books. 
 
 * Scots j\Iag. 1775, p. 326. 
 
 •f- Richardson's Letter, p. 13. 
 
 X Letter from Dr Wodrow to the Earl of Buchan.
 
 38 
 
 The accumulated cares which now pressed upon Robert Foulis, ren- 
 dered it necessary that he should discontinue his labours in behalf of 
 the Fine Arts. Besides his brother, Mr Archibald Ingram, who had 
 along with those already mentioned* been a partner in the Academy 
 since the 21st of February, 1758, was now dead, and the survivors were 
 probably anxious to put a termination to an institution, which they had 
 .so long supported, not only without the remuneration they were entitled 
 by their contract to insist upon, but at considerable loss.t There was 
 now, besides, a Royal Academy in the metropolis of the British 
 empire, — an institution which had risen with almost unprecedented 
 rapidity, t 
 
 As the most proper means of disposing of the collection of pictures, 
 which had now become very numerous, it was determined that they 
 .should be brought to sale by auction. They were accordingly packed 
 up and despatched to London, whither Robert Foulis himself, accom- 
 })anied by Robert Dewar, one of his printers, also repaired. This 
 person was afterwards married to one of Foulis' daughters, and it is 
 but justice to his memory to say, that he seems to have entertained for 
 
 * See page 18. Mr Ingram died, July 23d, 1770. (Sederunt Book of his Trustees). 
 
 + By this contract Robert and Andrew Foulis became bound to pay to John Glassford of 
 Dougalston, John Campbell, and Archibald Ingram, i'40 a year each. (List of R. and 
 A. Foulis' Debts.) The sums for which these gentlemen became liable, amounted (after 
 deductions) to about JB1140. 
 
 + The present Royal Academy was instituted in 1768, and was to be supported by the 
 produce of annual exhibitions, the deficiency (if any) being supplied out of his Majesty's 
 Privy Purse. For a few years it required his Majesty's aid, but as the exhibitions became 
 every year more productive, they were more than sufficient for tlie support of the estab- 
 lishment, Th<! exhibitions from 1769 to 1780 produced on an average £1500 annually, 
 and from that time to 179G about i^2500. (Malone's Life of Sir J, Reynolds, prefixed to 
 his Works, p. 09).
 
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 his master a high degree of respect, and to have watched over him, 
 when at length overtaken by sickness, with an almost filial anxiety. 
 
 They arrived in London about the month of April, I776, but here 
 new calamities awaited them. Before the pictures could be prepared for 
 exhibition, the season was too far advanced. " All the people of rank," 
 says Foulis in his last letter to his son, "or at leaft the generality, are 
 out of the Town, and the Exhibition is dwindled even to lefs than what 
 it was. I know no expedient that can be tried to help it but one, — 
 lliowing them for nothing, and taking 6d. for the Catalogue : this ex- 
 pedient might do, were it not for the difficulty of making it known, 
 becaufe Advertifements are fo little read, and fo many of them to read, 
 that a confiderable expence gone for Advertifing produces but a very 
 
 little efFe6l The run of the exhibitions are already over. It is 
 
 very mortifying to me to be obliged to fee this expedition a load on the 
 Company : this has happened fo independent of all choice, that I could 
 no more help it, than remove mountains ; but when better fortune 
 comes, I will remember it." * 
 
 Notwithstanding these discouragements, and contrary to the advice of 
 Christie, the auctioneer,t the pictures were sold off, and as might have 
 been expected, at a grievous disadvantage. Whether Foulis had over- 
 estimated the value of his pictures, or depended too much on the friend- 
 ship and patronage of those on whom he thought he had some claim, 
 are questions it would now be difficult to answer. Professor Richardson, 
 however, has stated from authority, on which he felt disposed to rely, 
 that a picture, sold for twenty-five pounds, afterwards brought five 
 hundred.! Two of the paintings belonging to the Academy were pur- 
 
 * This Letter, which is among Lord Buchan's Papers, is dated " London, May 2. 1776." 
 t Foulis's Letter to Campbell, Glassford, and Ingram, Orig. Pap. No. VL 
 J Richardson's Letter, p. 20.
 
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 chased by the University, and are now in their possession. One of 
 them was considered by so good a judge as the late Sir Henry Raeburn 
 to have been the production, if not of Raphael himself at an early period, 
 at least of one of his scholars.* 
 
 Foulis's mortification, amounting even to resentment, from the failure 
 of this last hope, was the more acute, as it had naturally no place in his 
 sanguine disposition. He thought himself neglected where he expected 
 attention, and ill-used where he looked for favour. It is honourable to 
 the memory of one, however, to whom the University of Glasgow, and 
 the Scottish literati generally, have been much indebted, to be enabled 
 to state, that his kindness to Foulis in this situation of his affairs was 
 unabated, — this person was the celebrated Dr Wilham Hunter. He 
 had been at an early period indebted to Foulis for an introduction to Dr 
 Douglas of London, and his gratitude does not seem to have diminished, 
 when success in his profession, — the closeness of his application to it, — 
 and the distance from Scotland, might almost have rendered it probable. 
 During this trying period he made every effort to support the mind of 
 his aged and unfortunate friend : — he even hinted that a certain great 
 personage might probably visit his exhibition. This however not having 
 taken place as he wished, Hunter repeated his hopes of it : — " It does 
 not fignify," said Foulis, with a look of independent unconcern, " I fliall 
 loon be in the prefence of the King of kings." 
 
 But little of this melancholy story remains to be told. With the 
 feelings already described, and with a constitution nearly exhausted, 
 Foulis left London. He reached Edinburgh, and while in the act of 
 preparing for his journey to Glasgow, suddenly expired on the 2d of 
 June, 1776.t 
 
 * Ricliardson's LeUer, p. 20. 
 
 t Scots Magazine, June, 17'/ 6. Richardson, p. 19.
 
 41 
 
 From the different facts noticed in the course of this sketch, the 
 reader may have been enabled to form some estimate of the character of 
 Robert Fouhs. To complete the outline, the following notices, by Pro- 
 fessor Richardson, may not be uninteresting : — 
 
 " The firll feature in Robert FouUs' chara6ler, that particularly flruck 
 me, was the great liking he fliowed to converfe on literary topics, and 
 even with perfons much younger than himfelf. This difpofition ap- 
 peared not only in occalional interviews, but in his chooling to affociate 
 with them, and become a member of their Literary Clubs and Societies. 
 This view of his chara6ter, which appeared to me lingular, was in my 
 apprehenlion rendered particularly interelling by that unfufpe6ling good- 
 will and benignity of difpofition with which it was intimately united. 
 For, befides the gratification he had, and no doubt he had a great deal, 
 in difplaying his own fentiments and opinions on fubje6ls of Tafi:e, the 
 Fine Arts, Literature, and even Theology, he likewife believed, and had 
 reafon to believe, that the knowledge he imparted, and the example he 
 exhibited, might be ufeful to his juvenile auditors. It will readily occur 
 that fuch difpofitions & habits mull have been prompted and induced 
 by great fervor of mind, and, in truth, there was no inconfiderable fliare 
 of enthufiafm, but unaccompanied with any peculiar impropriety, in his 
 fentiments and even in his condu6l. (Though he was ardent he was 
 feldom incenfed, and his eagernefs, or rather earnefl;nefs, was never keen). 
 His good fenfe and natural flow of affe6lion and complacency allayed at 
 that period* of his life ev^ery rifing impulfe of animofity ; fo that every 
 fudden difpleafure he ever felt, fuch as may be incidental to perfons of 
 fenfibility, was, in the calm of a benignant and forgiving temper, very 
 foon and completely affuaged. Thus difpofed and united, and being a 
 warm admirer of the fublime and affe6ling reprefentations prefented by 
 
 * The period at which Richardson became acquainted with him. See page 31.
 
 42 
 
 the Poet and the Pahiter, liis reUgion was nearly alUed to that of Fene- 
 lon, and his Philofophy was akin to the opinions, as he fiippofed, of 
 Plato, or the more intelligible Do6lrines of Cicero. Such indeed were 
 the fentiments which he often enforced in his difculTions in thofe Literary 
 and Philofophical Clubs and Societies, in which he ufually bore a part." 
 He was rather below the middle fize, yet perfe6lly well-proportioned, 
 and his whole appearance indicated a flrong and robufl conftitution. 
 His complexion had not much colour, but was fair, and the habitual 
 expreffion of his countenance was that of an amiable and good-hearted 
 difpofition.* 
 
 There were occasions in which the character of Robert Foulis ap- 
 peared in rather an amusing point of view. The brothers, as has been 
 already mentioned, had every evening during winter an auction of 
 books. Andrew generally officiated as auctioneer, but if prevented 
 from attending, his brother took his place. On these occasions when a 
 book was presented to him for sale, he not only announced the title, 
 but on many occasions continued an extemporaneous harangue upon its 
 contents. His candour prevented him from uniformly praising the book. 
 When " the History of Tom Jones" was one night handed to him, 
 *' How," said he, with considerable warmth, " was this book presented ? 
 It is improper for the perusal of young persons." And having said this, 
 he returned it to the clerk. On another occasion, having observed a 
 student, whose appearance did not indicate a superabundance of the 
 good things of this world, offer several times for a copy of Antoninus, 
 he asked whether he was anxious to have it. Being answered in the 
 affirmative, he presented it to him. 
 
 But such opportunities of displaying his generosity, were not often 
 afforded him. For his brother, aware of his propensities, hastened to 
 
 * Richardson's Letter, pp. 2, 3, G.
 
 43 
 
 disengage himself, and exerting, partly in jest and partly in earnest, an 
 authority which on other occasions he rarely claimed, " Come down," 
 he would say, " Robin, that place and that business are not for you." 
 And thus was he dismissed from his employment.* 
 
 No work is known to have been written by either of the Foulises, 
 except " the Catalogue of Pictures," with critical and explanatory 
 remarks by the elder.t This, however, must not be regarded as a fair 
 specimen of his talents. It was written hurriedly with the immediate 
 view to their being sold in London, — when the author was sixty-eight 
 years of age, — and soon after his brother's death. He had, besides, 
 been severely tried by family afflictions ; for having been twice married 
 he survived both wives and several of his daughters.t The criticism of 
 Professor Richardson regarding this work is perfectly just. It is too 
 circumstantial, — too minute in many of the descriptions, and conse- 
 quently too much spun out. Yet with all this, it wants many things 
 essential to a work of that kind. The pictures, we are told, are painted 
 by Raphael, Guido, Michael Angel o, and others, but nothing is said of 
 their history, — how they were obtained, — nor is any evidence brought 
 
 * Richardson's Letter, p. 9. 
 
 f Several " Prefaces by the Publishers" are prefixed to the works they printed. 
 
 X Foulis married first in September, 1742, Elizabeth Moor, daughter of James Moor, 
 teacher of mathematics in Glasgow, and sister to the celebrated Grecian. This lady 
 (by whom he had five daughters), having gone to Edinburgh in 1750 to visit some of her 
 relations, was suddenly seized with an illness, which carried her ofi^ in a few weeks. 
 Foulis's grief on this occasion was so great, that Dr Black had to drag him by force from 
 the room in which the body lay. [JNIrs Dewar to E. of Buchan.] He married secondly, 
 a Miss Boutcher, daughter of William Boutcher, seedsman in Edinburgh, and author of 
 a " Treatise on Forest Trees," published, according to Paton, "by subscription, as much 
 for the benefit of the author as for the merit of the work, tho' it's said not to be amiss" 
 — (Correspondence with Gough 29th December, 1775, Adv. Lib.) From this lady, the 
 late Andrew Foulis descended. 
 
 F 2
 
 44. 
 
 forward to prove that they are genuine.* Tlie course of FouHs' educa- 
 tion liad never led him to the study of elegance or accuracy in compo- 
 sition ; in this respect also the work will be found deficient. Yet it 
 displays the remains of what all who knew him acknowledged him to 
 possess, — " original genius." t It exhibits on several occasions an in- 
 timate knowledge of the subject, and great correctness and delicacy of 
 moral and philosophical discrimination. 
 
 As senior member, it was Robert Foulis's turn to read a discourse to 
 the Literary Society at their first meeting for the winter IJJ^y but lest 
 he should not have been able to return from London before that time, 
 another was appointed in his stead. His substitute opened the business 
 of the Society in the following words, — ahke honourable to the feelings 
 of the speaker, and the memory of his departed friend. 
 
 " Wlien I promifed, a few months ago, to begin the bulinefs of the 
 Society for the prefent feflion, I entertained expe6lations that the fulfil- 
 ment of my engagement would not have been required of me. A 
 venerable member was then living, though at that time abfent from his 
 home, never indeed to return, to whom that office would have fallen of 
 courfe. He is no longer a member of this Society, or of any fociety of 
 mortal men ; he is gone whither all of us fliall fooner or later follow, and 
 happy may we deem our departure, if we leave behind us a name like 
 his. I am well perfuaded, indeed, that our remembering hhn on the 
 prefent occafion will not be unpleafant. We have often feen him in this 
 Society, entering with ardour into every ingenious and important dif- 
 cuflion. But I fay nothing of the gratitude due to him by every lover 
 
 * Richardson's Letter, pp. 25, 2G. 
 
 + Dr Wodrow, writing of Foulis, calls him " a man of original genius, of a very- 
 liberal and enlarged mind, and of a mod benevolent dillnterefted Ipirit." (Letter to the 
 Earl of Buchan, May, 1808).
 
 45 
 
 of true learning, and of claffical elegance. It is not my purpofe to 
 pronounce his panegyric, for his eulogy is eftablillied on a firmer 
 foundation than any memorial of mine. As long as the luminaries of 
 Greece and of Rome are held in ellimation, will his fame be remem- 
 bered, and when they cease to be valued, who would choofe to be named? 
 (True, no doubt, ages have arifen in the hiflory of mankind that give 
 them no glory, but they were ages of darknefs and had no glory to 
 give). Nor will I enumerate his virtues. I only mean to recall liim to 
 your remembrance, for furely he deferves well of us all. His public 
 fpirit embracing the welfare and improvement of this community, and 
 indeed of the human kind, was accompanied, even in old age, with all 
 the ardour of private affection, and all the enthufiafm of youthful 
 friendlliip. Bending with years, and fully aware that a change in his 
 mortal nature was fall approaching, and that he was no longer to have 
 any concern in the affairs of men, he entered warmly into their interefls, 
 and preferved till his latell hour zealous willies for their improvement. 
 Few fpeak of the dead : they lie lilent and forgotten. Yet it is no 
 unbecoming exercife to renew the memory of a worthy friend. It is 
 often no lefs profitable than the converfe of the living, and often no 
 lefs delightful. I truil that I have obtruded no difagreeable remem- 
 brances on my audience : at leafl for my part I have fome claim for 
 indulgence." * 
 
 From the facts which have been already mentioned, the reader will 
 not be surprised to find that the affairs of Robert and Andrew Foulis 
 were left in a state of insolvency. It must be matter of deep regret 
 that the zeal with which they prosecuted whatever might promote the 
 
 * Richardson's Letter, pp. 26, 27, 28. The name of the speaker is not mentioned.
 
 46 
 
 literature and arts of their country, should have been so indifferently 
 rewarded. Persons of less enterprise might have risen to affluence from 
 the decided superiority of their printing ; but Robert Foulis's family 
 was left in almost complete destitution. Their affairs were finally wound 
 up in I78I, by Robert Chapman, printer, and James Duncan, bookseller 
 in Glasg-ow. Their debts amounted to rather more than six thousand 
 five hundred pounds, and nearly the whole of their stock was purchased 
 by Mr John Spottiswoode of Edinburgh.
 
 CATALOGUE OF BOOKS.
 
 CATALOGUE OF BOOKS. 
 
 \_The following List comprehends not only the Works executed by Urie for Robert Foulis, 
 and those printed by the latter individually, but also the joint productions of the two 
 brothersr\ 
 
 1741. 
 
 L The Temper, Chara6ler, and Duty of a Minifler of the Gofpel. A 
 Sermon preached before the Synod of Glafgow and Ayr, at Glaf- 
 gow, April 7th, I74I. By WilHam Leechman, A.M. Minifler of 
 Beith, 8vo. 
 
 2. Cicero de Natura Deorum. Accedunt Bouherii, Davilii, et ahorum 
 
 inligniores ]e6liones variantes et conje6lur8e, 8vo. 
 
 3. Phfedri Fabulse, ex editione Burmanni, 12mo. 
 
 4. Bifliop Burnet's Life of John, Earl of llocheller, 12mo. 
 
 5. A Catechifm, or an Inllru6lion in the Chriilian Religion by way of 
 
 Queflion and Anfwer, &c. By Rev. John Mears, A. M., Svo. 
 
 6. Leechman's Sermon, second edition, Svo, 
 
 1742. 
 
 7. Juvenalis et Perfii Satyrse, fools. Svo. 
 
 8. Philofophiee Moralis Inftitutio Compendiaria, Ethices et Jurifpruden- 
 
 tiee Naturalis Elementa continens, Libri Tres. Auclore Francifco 
 Hutchefon in Academia Glafguenfi, P. P. 12mo. 
 
 9. Metaphyficee Synoplis, Ontologiam et Pneumatologiam coniple6lens, 
 
 Svo. 
 
 10. The Meditations of M. Aurelius Antoninus. Newly Tranflated 
 from the Greek: with Notes and an Account of his Life, 12mo. 
 
 The two first books by Professor Moor, and the rest by Dr Francis Hutcheson. 
 
 G
 
 50 
 
 11. The State of Religion in New England fince the Rev. Mr George 
 
 "Whitefield's arrival there, &c. first and second editions, 8vo. 
 
 12. An Impartial Trial of the Spirit operating in this part of the World; 
 by comparing the nature, effe6ls, and evidences of the prefent fup- 
 pofed converfion with the Word of God : A Sermon preached at 
 New Londonderry, 06lober 4th, I74I. By John Caldwell, A. M. 
 Boflon printed. Reprinted by Robert Foulis, 8vo. 
 
 13. A Zeal for good Works excited and dire6led : in a Sermon at the 
 public Thurfday Le6lure in Bollon, March 25th, 1742. By John 
 Bernard, A. M. &c. 8vo. 
 
 14. P. Terentii AfriComoedice, Ex editione Westerhoviana, 12mo. and Svo. 
 
 " On Fine Paper, 3s. 6(1. bound: 12mo. coarfer paper at Is. 3d. bound, and forty 
 copies are printed on a grand Royal Paper at 8s." This accounts for Dibdin's 
 mistake in supposing that all other copies except those on royal paper are common. 
 — Introd. to Classics, second edition. Vol. i. p. 476. 
 
 15. The Wonderful Narrative : or a Faithful Account of the French 
 
 Prophets, their agitations, exftaiies, and infpirations, &c. Svo. 
 
 16. Hales on Religion, 12mo. 
 
 17. Leechman's Sermon, third edition, Svo. 
 
 1 8. Burnet's Select Sermons, Svo. 
 
 1743. 
 
 19. More's Utopia. Tranflated by Bifliop Burnet, Svo. 
 
 20. Instruclions to a Son, containing Rules of Condu6l in Public and 
 
 Private Life, &c. By Archibald, Marquis of Argyle, 12mo. 
 
 21. Demetrius Phalereus do Elocutione, Gr. et Lat., crown Svo. Is. 
 
 '* A few are printed off in 4to. on a fine Paper." 
 
 22. Divine Dialogues, containing Difquifitions concerning the Attributes 
 
 and Providence of God. By Henry More, D. D., 3 vols. 12mo. 
 
 23. The Nature, Reafonablenefs, and Advantages of Prayer. With an 
 
 attempt to aufwer the Obje6lions againll it. A Sermon by AV. 
 Leechman, A. M., Minifter of Beith, Svo. 
 
 24. The Judgment of Hercules, Svo. pp. 28. 
 
 25. The Confirming Work of Religion, or its great things made plain 
 by their primary Evidences and Demonllrations, &c. By the late
 
 61 
 
 Rev. Mr Robert Fleming, author of « The fulfilling of the Scrip- 
 tures,'' 18mo. 
 
 26. A Defcription of the Confirmed State of Chriflians. By the fame 
 
 author, 18mo. 
 
 27. Theophrafli Chara6leres Ethici : ex recenfione Petri Needham, et 
 
 cum verfione Latina Ifaaci Cafauboni, 8vo. 
 
 28. Boffuet's Account of the Education of the Dauphine, in a Letter to 
 Pope Innocent XI. Tranflated by J. T. Phillips, Preceptor to 
 H. R. H. Prince William Duke of Cumberland, fools. 12mo. Id. 
 
 1744. 
 
 29. Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera, 12mo. 
 
 Fine paper small 8vo. The immaculate edition See page 14. 
 
 30. Antoninus de Se ipfo, Gr. et Lat. cum notis R. J. 2 vols, small 8vo. 
 81. Ciceronis Difputationes Tufculanoe cum le6lionibus variantibus et 
 
 CI. Boulierii conie6turis, 12mo. 
 
 32. Epi6leti Manuale, Cebetis Tabula, Prodicus et Cleanthes, Gr. et 
 Lat., 12mo. 
 
 33. Epi6leti Enchiridion Latinis Verfibus Adumbratum per Edvar- 
 
 dum Ivie, A. M. &c., 12mo. 
 
 34. Leechman's Sermon, fourth edition, 8vo. 
 
 35. Anacreontis et Sapphonis Carmina, Gr. et Lat., 12mo. 
 
 36. Pindari Opera, 2 vols. Gr. et Lat., fools. 8vo. fine, 3s. 6d. common, 2s. 
 
 " I have carefully read this edition twice through, and affirm it to be one of the 
 moft accurate of the Glafgow editions of the Greek claffics." — Harwood, pp. 8, 9. 
 
 37. Synopfis Metaphyficse, Ontologiam et Pneumatologiam comple6lens. 
 Editio fecunda, demy 12mo. 
 
 38. Plutarchus de Superflitione, Xenophontis Socrates, et Ariflodemus 
 
 de Providentia : Platonis Alcibiades Secundus de Numine Orando. 
 
 Gr. et Lat., 12mo. 
 
 Some copies bear the name of Robert only, — others those of R. & A. Foulis. 
 There is little doubt, however, that Robert must be considered responsible for the 
 inaccuracies which this volume contains, as the preface begins " Tyjiographiis Ju- 
 7iioribus Academicism The correcting of the press had been left entirely to the 
 compositor, and in reading it over after it was printed, so many errors were dis- 
 
 g2
 
 52 
 
 covered that it was allowed to remain unpublished for about twelve years. The 
 date of publication was April, 1756, and even then it was intended only " In ufuni 
 Juventutis AcademicEe." — See Pref. The propriety of giving an inaccurate book 
 into the hands of a student may be questioned. 
 
 1745. 
 39. Smith on the Noblenefs and Excellency of True Religion, 8vo. 
 40* Sophoclis Tragoediae ; cum verfione Latina et le6lionibus variantibus, 
 2 vols, fools. 8vo. 
 
 " One of the mofl incorrecfl of the Glafgow Greek claliics. In carefully read- 
 ing this edition feveral times through, I have difcovered and correded above an 
 hundred inaccuracies. It is beautifully printed." — Harwood, p. 13. 
 
 41. The fame, Gr. fools. 4to. 
 
 " An excellent edition." — Harwood, p. 12. 
 
 42. Xenophontis Hiero, Gr. et Lat. fools. 8vo. 6d. 
 
 43. Arillotelis Poetica, Gr. et Lat. cum le6tionibus variantibus, fools. 8vo. 
 
 44. Ariflotelis de Mundo Liber, Gr. et Lat. crown 12mo. 3d. 
 
 45. Hutchefoni Philofophias JMorahs Inflitutio Compendiaria. Editio 
 altera auclior et emendatior. 
 
 1746. 
 
 46. True Religion, a Myllery, 8vo. 
 
 47. Guardian, 2 vols. 12mo. 
 
 48. jEfchyli Tragoedia, cum verfione Latina et le6lionibus variantibus, 
 2 vols, fools. 8vo. common, 3s. 
 
 49. Idem liber, Gr. fools. 4to. cum le6lionibus variantibus, 6s. 
 
 " An edition much more corre6l than the Anall one publiilied at Glafgow the 
 fame year, in 2 vols. 12mo., though this laft is a refpedablo edition ; for, in reading 
 it four times through, I have only difcovered about ten inaccuracies of any mo- 
 ment." — Harwood, p. 11. 
 
 50. The Cherrie and the Slae, compylit into Scottis Meeter, by Cap- 
 
 tain Alexander Montgomery. Firft printed MDXCVIL, by Robert 
 Waldegrave, printer to King James VI. 12mo. 
 
 51. Letters to the Duke of Burgundy, by M. de Fcnelon, Archbifliop 
 
 of Cambray, demy 4to. 3d. fools. 4to. 2^d. pot 4to. 2d. 
 
 52. Theocriti Opera, Gr. fools. 4to. fine, 4s. 6d. common, 3s. 
 
 53. The fame, Gr. and Lat. fools. 8vo. fine, 2s. (id. common, 2s.
 
 53 . 
 
 1747. 
 
 54. Homeri Ilias, Gr. 2 vols, fools. 4to. 6s. 
 
 55. The fame, Gr. and Lat. 2 vols, fools. 8vo. common, 2s. 6d. 
 
 On the blank side of the last page : — " Excudebatur apud Fratres Robei'tum et 
 Andream Foulls Academise Glafguenfi Typographos. Anno MDCCXLVII 
 pridie Nonas Septembris." A few 8vo. copies were thrown off on vellum, of 
 which three remained in 1777. The trade price of the latter seems to have been 
 10s. in sheets. 
 5Q. Longiniis. 
 
 57. Cebetis Tabula. Accedit Interpretatio Latina ex Editione J. Gro- 
 novii. 12mo. 
 
 " Very beautiful and accurate?' — Harwood, p. 22. 
 
 58. Hutcheson's Compend of Moral Philofophy, [in Englifli] fools. 
 12mo. Is. 6d. 
 
 59. Tatler, 4 vols, fools. Svo. fine, 7s. 6d. 
 
 60. Rrlph's Poems, Svo. 
 
 1748. 
 
 61. The Philofophical Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion, 
 unfolded in Geometrical order. By the Chevalier Ramfay, Author of 
 the Travels of Cyrus. 2 vols, writing demy, 4to. 21s. fools. 4to. 
 10s. 6d. 
 
 Some copies are marked, London, 1749 — 51. 
 
 62. Cicero de Officiis. 
 
 03. An EfTay on the Compofition and Manner of "Writing of the An- 
 cients, particularly Plato. By the late James Geddes, Efq. Advo- 
 cate, demy 8vo. With a Life of the Author, by William Leechman, 
 D.D. Principal of the Univerfity of Glafgow, 3s. 
 
 64. Xenophontis de Agefilao Rege Oratio. Adje6ta ell verfio Latina ex 
 editione T. Hutchefon, 8vo. 
 
 Q5. The battles of Hairlaw and the Reid Squire. Two Old Hillorical 
 Scots Poems, fools. Svo. fine, 2d. common. Id. 
 
 06. Hippocratis Aphorifmi, Gr. et Lat. 12mo. 
 
 67. Hardyknute, fools. 4to. fine 3d. 
 
 A List of the different editions of Hardyknute is given in the 2d vol. (p. J 6.) 
 of the Letters to Mr George Paton, edited by James JMaidment, Esq. a Member 
 of the Club.
 
 54 
 
 68. Poems in the Scottifli Diale6l, by feveral celebrated Poets : viz. 
 
 Chrifl's Kirk, Habbie Simfon and Sannj Brig's Elegies, The Blyth- 
 fome Wedding, Kennedy's Teflament, Johnie Armflrang, a Satyre 
 on Covetoufnefs, Panegyric on Sir Penny, Robin and Makyne, In- 
 terlude of the Droiclis, an Epiflle, 8vo. pp. 48. 
 
 69. Epi6teti Enchiridion, Ex Editione J. Upton accurate exprefTuni, 
 Gr. et Lat. 12mo. 
 
 70. Ciceronis Orator, ISmo. 
 
 17^9. 
 
 71. Apolionii Pergaei Locorum Planorum, Libri II. Rellituti a Roberto 
 
 Simfon, M.D. 4to. 
 
 72. Poems on Several Occafions, [by William Hamilton, Efq. of Ban- 
 gour,] 12mo. 
 
 73. Lucretius de Rerum Natura. Sine notis, 8vo. 
 
 74. Antoninus, [Englifli] 2 vols. 8vo. second edition. 
 
 75. The Original, Nature and Immortality of the Soul, a Poem by Sir 
 J. Davies, 12mo. 
 
 76. Cornelius Nepos, fools. 8vo. 
 
 77. S^moplis Metaphyficae, third edition, 8vo. 
 
 78. M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera quae fuperfunt omnia, 20 vols, fools. 12mo. 
 fine, 40s., middle, 25s., common, 17s. 
 
 " The text of this very beautiful edition of Cicero, publiflied at Glafgow, is taken 
 from Olivet, and is very correclly printed." — Harwood, p. 162. Price, — " £l : 17:6. 
 to Subfcribers in Sheets." — Scots Mag. 
 
 79. Propofals for Printing by Subfcription the whole Works of Plato. 
 
 A letter from the celebrated .John Wilkes to Robert Foulis, relative to the in- 
 tended work, has been preserved. — It is now printed for the first time. 
 
 London, December 3d, 1746. 
 Sir, — About a month ago, Mr Dahymple communicated to me fome propofals 
 of yours for the Printing of Plato in ten A^>hmies Odavo, which he faid you would 
 undertake if you were alfurcKl of a hundred fublcriptions at two guineas each. I 
 have fince mentioned this to Mr Profeflbr Ward of Greiham College and to feveral 
 other friends, who are very willing to encourage fo ufefid a defign ; and I am 
 defired to write to you, to beg you would fend us printed propofals. We may 
 venture to aflure you of one hundred fublcriptions from the circle of our own
 
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 acquaintance. This would be a trifling expence to you, as I imagine you would 
 give the letter and paper of your 8vo. Sophocles for a fpeciraen. It would be the 
 greateft honor to your prefs, to print fo noble an author with as few errata as 
 poffible ; and you would benefit the learned world beyond what Stephens or 
 Aldus ever did. The text of Servanus in general you will chule I make no doubt ; 
 and if I might advife you, it would be to publiOi firll the moft ftriking pieces of 
 Plato, and the two or three firft volumes feparately. By this means every body 
 would purchafe the firft volumes for the intrinfick excellency of the pieces, and the 
 remaining volumes to complete their sets. I think you liiould begin with the 
 Phsedo, the Crito, and the two Alcibiades, then tlie Apology of Socrates, TiniEeiis, 
 the Sympofium, and Minon, You need not doubt the happy lale of thefe, and this 
 would affure fucceis to the whole work. If you approve of this, and chufe to 
 undertake it, I lliould be obliged to you if you would anfwer this as foon as you 
 can, and pleafe to dired; to me in St John's Square, Clerkenwell. 
 
 I am, your humble fervant, 
 
 John Wilkes. 
 
 " This letter of Wilkes'," says the Earl of Buchan, " does more credit to his 
 memory than the whole of his political career, tho' no friend to truth can deny 
 that he was bafely perfecuted by the firft of thofe abominable adminiftrations tliat 
 have difgraced the prefent reign [George III.], and brought Britain to the brink 
 of ruin and deftru<5lion." 
 
 1750. 
 
 80. Law on Money and Trade, 12mo. 
 
 81. C. Julii Ceefaris et A. Hirtii de rebus a Cseflire geftis Commentarii, 
 fools, folio, 10s. 
 
 82. The fame, fools. 4to. 8s. 
 
 83. The fame, 3 vols, fools. 12mo. Is. 9d. 
 
 84. Marci Minucii Felicis Octavius, ex recenfione Johannis Davifii, 4to. 
 
 85. The fame, 8vo. 
 
 86. Demollhenis Orationes Philippicse, Gr. et Lat. fools. 8vo. fine, 2s. 6d., 
 common. Is. 6d. 
 
 87. De optmio Reipiiblica^ Statu, deque Nova Infula Utopia Libri II. 
 
 Au6tore Thoma Moro Equite, Sec. Ex prioribus editionibus collatis 
 accurate exprefli, 12mo. 
 
 88. The Trade and Navigation of Great Britain confidered. By Jofliua 
 
 Gee, 12mo.
 
 56 
 
 89. Milton's Paradife Loft, Book I. [with notes by John Callander, Efq. 
 of Craigforth.] 4to. Is. 6d. 
 
 For some account of these notes, see Transactions of the Society of Scottish 
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 322. Cato, a Tragedy. By Jofeph Addifon, Efq., small 12mo. 
 
 323. Milton's Minor Poems, 12mo. 
 
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 325. Milton's Paradife Regained, 12mo. 
 
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 327. The Taming of a Shrew. 
 
 328. All's well that ends well. 
 
 329. Twelfth Night.
 
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 330. Winter's Tale. 
 
 331. Richard II. 
 
 332. Henry VL, Parts Firfl, Second, and Third. 
 
 333. Timon of Athens. 
 33-i. Antony and Cleopatra. 
 
 335. Titus Androniciis. 
 
 336. Troilus and Creffida. 
 
 337. CymbeUne. 
 
 338. Romeo and Juhet. 
 
 339. Comedy of Errors. 
 
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 341. As' you Like it. 
 
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 1766. 
 
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 355. Shakefpear, 8 vols, crown 12mo. common 12s. 
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 359' Compend of Phyfics, Svo. 
 
 360. Telemachus, a Maik, 12mo. 
 
 361. Parnell's Works in Profe and Verfe, 12mo. 
 
 362. The Marquis of Worceller's Scantlings of Inventions, fools. 
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 363. Pope's Homer, 7 vols, small 12mo. 
 
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 366. Pope's Homer's OdyfiTey, 3 vols. ISmo. 
 
 367. Pope's Poems, 4 vols. ISmo. 
 
 368. Drummond's Polcmo-Middinia, fools. 4to. 3d. 
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 371. Gray's Poems, [edited by Dr I3eattie] 4to. medium paper, 3s. 6d. 
 
 372. Ramfay's Tea Table Mifcellany, 2 vols, fools. Svo. fine, 3s. com- 
 mon, Is. 6d.
 
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 375. Catalogue of Books to be Sold by Au6lion by R. & A. Foulis, 4to. 
 576. Poems on Several Occafions. By Matthew Prior, Efq. 2 vols. 
 
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 378. Ciceronis pro Marcello et Ligario Orationes, ex editione Oliveti, 
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 379. Leechman's Sermon on the Temper, Chara6ler, and Duty of a 
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 380. Leechman's Sermon on Prayer, sixth edition, 12mo. 
 
 381. Young's Night Thoughts, 2 vols, 18mo. 
 
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 382. Vindication of the Sacred Books from the mifreprefentations and 
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 383. Anacreon, Sappho, et Alcseus, Gr. et Lat. fools. 8vo. fine, Is. 2d. 
 
 384. Memorables of the Montgomeries, fools. 4to. fine 3d. common, 2d. 
 
 385. Milton's Paradife Lofl:, writing demy, foho, 17s. fools, folio, 10s. 6d. 
 
 386. Compend of Phyfics, 1 2mo. 
 
 387. Moor's Greek Grammar, 8vo. 
 
 388. Stonehoufe's Spiritual Dire6lions, fools. 8vo. fine, 4d. common, 3d. 
 
 389. Pindari Opera, Gr. et Lat. 2 vols, fools. 8vo. fine, Ss. 6d. common, 2s. 
 
 390. The Gallery of Raphael, folio. 
 
 391. Dryden's Poems, 2 vols. 12mo. 
 
 392. Gay's Poems, 18mo. 
 
 393. Infl:ru6lions for Officers, with Plates, 8vo.
 
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 177L 
 
 395. Cebetis Tabula, Gr. et Lat. 
 
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 397. Pope's Homer, 4 vols. 18mo. 
 
 398. Confiderations upon a Bankrupt Law for Scotland, 4to. 
 
 399. ColUns' and Hammond's Poems, ISmo. 
 
 400. Denham's Poems, ISmo. 
 
 401. Tentamen Medicum Inaugurale de Angina Maligna. Au6lore Jo- 
 anne Storer, Svo. 
 
 1772. 
 
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 405. Hutchefon's Compend of Moral Philofophy. Fourth edition, 12mo. 
 
 406. Logicee Compendium, 12mo. 
 
 407. Letters concerning the true foundation of Virtue or Moral Good- 
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 408. Hutchefon's Eflliy on tlie Nature and Conduct of tlie PafTions. 
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 409- Beggar's Opera, 12mo. 
 
 1773. 
 410. Gray and Littleton's Poems, ISmo.
 
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 411. Smollet's Ode to Independence, [publiflied by Profeffor Richard- 
 fon], 4to. 
 
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 413. Parnell's Poems, fools. 8vo. fine, Is. 4d. 
 
 414. Moor's Greek Grammar, 8vo. 
 
 415. Poems by Thomas Graham, 12mo. 
 
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 417. The Seven Cartoons of Raphael. By W. Mitchell and W. Bu- 
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 418. DifTertatio Inauguralis de Hyfleria, Au6lore Samuele Evans, 8vo. 
 
 1774. 
 
 419. Liberty, a Poem. By James Thomfon, 18mo. 
 
 420. Poems, chiefly Rural. [By William Richardfon, Efq. Profeffor of 
 Humanity in the Univerfity of Glafgow], 8vo. 
 
 421. Of the Imitation of Jefus Chrifl. In Four Books. By Thomas a 
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 422. Burrow's Book of Rates, folio. 
 
 423. MetaphyficaB Synopfis, editio fexta, 8vo. pp. lol. 
 
 424. Swift's Poems, 4 vols. 18mo. 
 
 1775. 
 
 425. Sele6l Poems from a larger Colle6lion, 18mo. 
 
 426. Euripidis Medea, Gr. et Lat., fools. 8vo. fine, Is. 2d. common, 9d. 
 
 427. The same, fools. 4to. fine, 2s. 6d. 
 
 428. Dryden's Virgil, 3 vols. 18mo. 
 
 429. Epi6leti Enchiridion, Gr. et Lat. ex editione J. Upton. 
 
 430. Jephthes five Votum, Tragoedia. Au6lore Georgio Buchanano, 
 Scoto, fools. 8vo. fine, 4d. common, 3d.
 
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 1.31. The Funeral Oration of Lewis XV. the Well-beloved, King of 
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 vais, Lord-Bilhop of Senez, fools. 8vo. fine, 8d. common, 4d. 
 
 43^2. Sherlock on Death, fools. 8vo. fine, 2s. common, Is. 2d. 
 
 i33. Garth's Poems, ISmo. 
 
 134. Richardfon*s Epithalamium on the Marriages of the Dutchefs of 
 Athol and the Honourable Mrs Graham, 4to. 
 
 435. Poems, chiefly Rural. Third edition corre<5led, 12mo. 
 
 1776. 
 
 436. Simfoni Opera qusedam reliqua, Sciz. Apollonii PergSBi de Se6lione 
 determinata Libri II. reflituti, duobus infuper libris au6li : porifma- 
 tum liber : de logarithmis iiber : de limitibus quantitatum et ratio- 
 num fragmentum : et appendix, pauca continens problemata ad 
 illullrandam praecipue veterum geometrarum analyfin : edita im- 
 penfis quidem Philippi Comitis de Stanhope, cura vero Jacobi Clow, 
 Phil. Prof. Glafg., 4to. 
 
 137. Sele<Jt Sermons on Interefling Subjedls. By Hugh Knox, D.D. &c. 
 2 vols. 12mo. 
 
 438. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, 12mo. 
 
 439. Gay's Poems, and Beggar's Opera, 2 vols. 12mo. 
 
 440. Denham's Poems, 12mo. 
 
 441. A Catalogue of Pi6lures, compofed and painted chiefly by the molt 
 admired Maflers of tlie Roman, Florentine, Parman, Bolognefe, 
 Venetian, Flemifli, and French Schools. In which many of the moft 
 capital are illuftrated by Defcriptions and Critical Remarks. Humbly 
 offered to the Impartial Examination of the Public, by Robert Foulis. 
 In Three Volumes. London, Sold at the place of exhibition, 12mo. 
 
 There can be no doubt tliat this Catalogue was printed at GlaiJgow. The fol- 
 h)wing entry appears in the List of Debts owing by the deceased Robert & Andrew 
 Foulis, — " Sum due to the defuncts for outlaid expenfe of Catalogue of Paintings, 
 £42. 2. 9."
 
 LIST OP BOOKS, 
 
 THE DATES OF WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN ASCERTAINED. 
 
 442. Hutchefoiii Oratio Inaugaralis, fools. 8vo. 9d. 
 
 443. Tully on Friendfliip, fools. 8vo. fine, 4d. common, 3d. 
 
 444. The Devil on Two Sticks, pot l^mo. common, 9cl. 
 
 445. Chrifl's Kirk on the Green, fools. 8vo. fine, 3d. common, 2^d. 
 
 446. Milton's Samfon Agonifles, pot 12mo. common, 2d. 
 
 447. Milton's Tra6late on Education, fools. 12mo. |d. 
 
 448. The Freeholder's Political Catechifm, fools. 8vo. fine, 2^d. common, 2d. 
 
 449. M'Gill's Synod Sermon, fools. 8vo. fine, 4d. 
 
 450. Cappe's Sermon, fools. 8vo. fine, 3d. common, 2d. 
 
 451. Dii Frefnoy's Judgment of Painters, fools. 8vo. 3d. 
 
 452. Coypel Sur la Peinture, fools. 8vo. fine, 2id. 
 
 453. Ramfay on the Love of God, fools. 8vo. fine 3d. common, 2d. 
 
 454. Voltaire's Charles XII., fools. 8vo. common. Is. 
 
 455. The Abridgement or Summarie of the Scots Chronicle. By John 
 Monipennie. Firfl printed at Britaines Bui-ffe by John Budge, 
 1612. [With a map, no date], fools. 8vo. fine, 9d. common, 4^d. 
 
 45(3. La deflru6lion des Jefuites, fools. 8vo. fine. Is. 
 
 457. Prince Eugene and King Henry's Prayer, fools. 8vo. fine, 3d. 
 
 458. Bifliop Taylor's Rules for the Clergy, fools. 8vo. 4d. 
 
 459. Milton's I'Allegro and II Penferofo, fools. 4to. 3d. 
 
 460. Doctor Wight's Heads of Lectures, fools. 8vo. fine, 6d. common, id. 
 With the Chronological Table, 6d. 
 
 46L Dalrymple's Addrefs to the Americans, fools. 8vo. fine, 6d. com- 
 mon, 3d. 
 
 462. American Querifl, fools. 8vo. fine, 4d. common, 2d. 
 
 463. Plain Reafons for being a Chrifl:ian, crown 8vo. 2d. 
 
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 464. Shaftelbury's Moralift, crown 12mo. Is. 
 
 465. Shaftelbury's Chara6leriflics. • 
 
 466. Hiero on the Condition of a Tyrant, fools. 8vo. 3d. 
 
 467. Bennet on the Cruelty of the Church of Rome, fools. 8vo. 
 
 468. Sermon on Early Piety, 8vo. 
 
 469. Reprefentation for the Brewers in Glafgow. 
 
 470. Fannuel's Funeral Oration, fools. 4to. 
 
 471. Cudworth's Sermon, 8vo. 
 
 472. Fenelon's Pious Thoughts, fools. 8vo. fine, Is. 2d. common, 9d. 
 
 The following English Poets in pot 12mo. 
 47s. Dryden's Fables, 2 vols. 
 
 474. Waller's Poems. 
 
 475. Young's Love of Fame the Univerfal Paffion, and other Poems. 
 
 476. Thomfon's Seafons. 
 
 477* Thomfon's Caflle of Indolence, and other Poems. 
 478. Mafon's Poems, 2 vols. 
 479- Glover's Leonidas. 
 
 480. Shenflone's Sele6l Poems. 
 
 481. Aikenfide's Pleafures of Imagination. 
 
 482. Parnell's Poems. 
 
 483. Swift's Sele6l Poems, 2 vols. 
 
 484. Modern Poems. 
 
 485. Orphan. 
 
 486. Rofamond, by Addifon. 
 
 487. The Drummer : or the Haunted Houfe, by the same. 
 
 488. Fair Penitent, by Rowe. 
 
 489. Lady Jane Gray, by the same. 
 
 490. Jane Shore, by the same. 
 49L Ramfay's Scots Proverbs. 
 
 492. Ccbcs [in English]. 
 
 493. Chevy Chace, according to the Scots and Englilh editions, 4to. 
 
 494. Tucker on Naturalization 
 
 495. Archimedes, Gr. folio. 
 
 496. Butler's Sermons.
 
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 497* Butler's Analogy, 2 vols. 
 
 498. Scougal's Sermons. 
 
 499. Macbeth. 
 
 500. Othello. 
 
 501. Hamlet. 
 
 502. Hardyknute, a Fragment of an Antient Scots Poem, 4to. Price 
 Sixpence, [1745]. 
 
 503. Propofals for Encouraging by Subfcription an Academy for Paint- 
 ing and Sculpture at Glafgow, [cir. 1758]. 
 
 504. Leechman on Prayer, 8vo. [1749]. 
 
 505. Poems on Several Occalions. By the Rev. Mr John Pomfret. 
 Twelfth edition, 8vo. [1757]. 
 
 506. La Pucelle d'Orleans, Poeme Heroi-Comique, 18mo. Chez les 
 Fre'res Follis, [1756].. 
 
 507. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal, fools. 8vo. fine, Is. 2d. common, 8d. 
 [1758]. 
 
 508. A Difcourfe on Ancient and Modern Learning. By the late 
 Right Hon. Jofeph Addifon, Efq. Fourth edition, fools. 8vo. fine, 
 .3d. common. 2d. [1759]. 
 
 509- Epi6leti Enchiridion ex editione J. Upton, 64mo. [I765]. 
 
 510. Addifon's Poems, fools. 8vo. [I77O]. 
 
 511. A Catalogue of Books, lately imported from France, containing 
 the fcarcell and moll elegant editions of the Greek and Roman 
 authors, printed by the Aldi, Juntae, the Stephens, Turnebus, Vaf- 
 cofan, the Morells, &c. [cir. I744]. 
 
 512. Books Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, Printers to the 
 Univerfity of Glafgow. The Prices of the Books, in quires or 
 fewed in blue paper, are affixed, 8vo. pp. 51. [cir. I775]. 
 
 513. A Catalogue of Pictures, Drawings, Prints, Statues, and Bulls in 
 Plailler of Paris, done at the Academy in the Univerfity. In this 
 Catalogue is inferted a Colle6lion of Prints, the Plates of which are 
 the property of R. and A. Foulis. PubUflied for the ufe of Sub- 
 fcribers, folio. [Reprinted in this volume, from a copy in tlie pos- 
 session of David Laing, Esq.]
 
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 514. A Catalogue of Books, being the entire Stock in Quires, of the 
 late Meffieurs Robert and Andrew Foulis, Printers to the Univer- 
 lity of Glafgow : confilling of their elegant and corre6t editions of 
 the Greek and Latin Claflics, and other books printed by them ; 
 and likewife of the Books in Quires printed by Others which were 
 in their pofleffion ; Intended to be Sold in Wholefale by Private 
 Bargain, &c. — Glasgow, October 1st, 1777, 4to. 
 
 Though neither this, nor the two following articles were printed by R. and A. 
 Foulis, they are inserted as relating to them. 
 
 515. A Catalogue of a Large Colle6lion of Copper- Plates, [cir. 1777]. 
 
 516. A Catalogue of Paintings, and of Moulds for calling Bulls, Statues, 
 &c. in Plaifler of Paris, [cir. 1777].
 
 NOTICES 
 
 REGARDING THE 
 
 ACADEMY ESTABLISHED AT GLASGOW, 
 
 BY 
 
 ROBERT AND ANDREW FOULIS.
 
 NOTICES 
 
 REGARDING THE 
 
 ACADEMY ESTABLISHED AT GLASGOW, 
 
 BV 
 
 ROBERT AND ANDREW FOULIS. 
 
 The origin, and a few subsequent facts in the history of this institution 
 have already been noticed in an earher part of the work, but as a minute 
 account of it would have confused the narrative, and as the documents 
 regarding the Academy form by much the largest part of those which 
 remain, a more detailed notice of it may not be unacceptable. 
 
 The History of the Fine Arts in Scotland does not seem to have 
 attracted much notice till of late years, when the study of every thing 
 connected with the History, Literature, and Antiquities of the country 
 has become fashionable. A paper, containing some curious facts on this 
 subject, appeared in " The Bee," vol. xviii. p. y^j ^"d is believed to 
 have been written by Sir G. Chalmers. In 1799, when the late Mr 
 Pinkerton published his " Scottish Gallery," he prefixed an " Introduc- 
 tion on the Rise and Progress of Painting in Scotland," in which he has 
 collected many interesting notices of the Scotch artists. The only 
 painter referred to by him of whom much is known, is George Jameson, 
 the pupil of Rubens, and fellow-student of Vandyke, who attracted the 
 notice of Charles I. while in Scotland in 1633, and to whom that
 
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 monarch sat for his portrait.* The names of the other Scotch artists, — 
 the elder and younger Scougal, Paton, Aikman, Alexander, and Me- 
 dina, are now little known except to collectors. No traces have been 
 discovered of the practice of the Fine Arts in Glasgow beyond the 
 visits of some itinerant " Dick Tinto," and the portraits of a few of the 
 benefactors to the city which adorn the interior of some of our public 
 buildings. One notice, connected with this subject, appears in the very 
 curious collections of extracts from the Burgh Records, which have 
 been lately printed in the Glasgow Courier, by William Motherwell, 
 Esq., and it deserves notice, as showing the remuneration which labour 
 of this kind received: — " 12th June, 1641. The faid day ordainis the 
 threafaurer to have ane warrand to pay to James Colquhoun iyve dollars 
 for drawing of the portrai6l of the toun to be fent to Holland." It has 
 been suggested that this " portrai6l" was probably intended for Bleau's 
 Atlas, which was preparing for publication at Amsterdam about this 
 time, although it did not appear till l65i. 
 
 To proceed in our account of the Glasgow Academy. — It will be 
 readily believed that Foulis's motives for establishing that institution 
 must have had their rise purely in his own ardent attachment to the 
 Fine Arts. The field which Scotland then afforded for such an under- 
 taking was extremely limited, and the country was at that time only 
 recovering from the effects of the recent rebellion. But Foulis probably 
 felt confident that were such an institution once established, its ultimate 
 
 * " \^'heu the king was at Edinburgh, 1633, the magistrates procured from .Jameson 
 many of his portraits, with which they adorned the sides of the Netherbow." (Pinker- 
 ton's Introd.) It is perhaps to some of his productions that Spalding alludes in his very 
 quaint and amusing account of his majesty's entrance into the city : — '' At the weft end of 
 the tolbuith he [^the king] faw the royall pedegree 'of the kings of Scotland, frae Fergus 
 the Firft, delecately {tainted ; and ther had ane fourtli fpeech," &c. (Spalding's History 
 of the Troubles. Bannatyne Club Edit. v. i. p. 16). An equally amusing notice on the 
 same subject occurs in Craufurd's History of the University of Edinburgh, p. 120. Other 
 notices of George .Jameson, burgess of " glorious Aberdeen," occur in Spalding's work. 
 He was probably the same person, as Jameson the artist is stated by Pinkerton to have 
 been an Aberdonian.
 
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 success might be considered as almost certain, — and that those who 
 should acquire a taste for the Arts might " infpire the fame love and 
 relifli for the beautiful in thofe that are near them, and they in others." 
 The very fact that there was then no other Academy for the Arts in 
 Scotland seems to have operated powerfully in inducing liiin to com- 
 mence the undertaking. The field was entirely unoccupied, and those 
 who were willing to encourage the rising institutions of their country 
 could not plead the number or variety of those which required their 
 patronage as an excuse for witliholding their assistance from it. He 
 had, besides, hopes of meeting even with royal patronage, — hopes 
 which were soon blasted by the untimely death of the Prince of 
 Wales.* 
 
 Two plans seem to have been proposed for the support of the 
 Academy. The first was, to submit the scheme to some person of high 
 rank ; but this idea was, after mature consideration, abandoned. The 
 second, to use Foulis's own words, was to communicate it to some 
 merchants of spirit, and represent it to them as a finer kind of manufac- 
 ture, that would take a longer time to come to a bearing and produce 
 profit, but that in the end would make full amends for the delay, by 
 affording more ample profits, because the manufactures were not pro- 
 duced from dear materials, and the productions were considered not so 
 much according to the quantity of labour they contained, as according 
 to the degree of genius and art well conducted. This plan seems to 
 have been adopted, but nothing farther is known of the Academy till 
 1759, when the following " Propofal for encouraging by Subfcription an 
 Academy for Painting and Sculpture," was inserted in the Scots Maga- 
 zine. It appears to have been issued the year before. 
 
 " Propofal. — The produ6lions of Mr Foulis' Academy being expofed 
 to view at Edinburgh in the Shop of Mr Robert Fleming, and at Glafgow 
 in the Gallery appointed for them in the College ; It is propofed. That 
 fuch gentlemen as are willing to promote this defign, fliall advance cer- 
 
 * Preface to Foulis'y Catalogue of Pictures. 
 L 2
 
 84 
 
 tain fums annually, for any number of years they fhall think proper ; 
 during which time they are to chufe, among the Prints, Defigns, Paint- 
 ings, Models, or Cafls, which are the produ6lion of this Academy, fuch 
 lots as may amount to the value of the fums they have advanced. The 
 Subfcribers Ihall have a receipt for the fums refpe6lively paid by them, 
 ligned either by Mr Foulis at Glafgow, or Mr Fleming, his Truflee, at 
 Edinburgh. Gentlemen may withdraw their fubfcriptions when they 
 pleafe."* 
 
 It appears from a letter prefixed to this Proposal, that Foulis had 
 already experienced much difficulty in the selection of proper teachers, 
 and that he had to contend with the predilection of" the nation for the 
 works of foreign artists ; so much so, that although the productions of 
 the Academy had now become numerous, he found it no easy matter to 
 dispose of them to any advantage. He had now several students, some 
 of whom had made considerable progress. While employed at Glasgow, 
 they seem to have received such wages as they might have got had they 
 followed a mechanical employment, — and if they exhibited sufficient 
 marks of genius, they were sent abroad to study at the expense of the 
 Academy. The first of those who went abroad in this manner was a 
 young man of the name of Maxwell, who died soon after his arrival at 
 Rome. The second was William Cochrane, of whose life a short sketch 
 will be afterwards given, and the last was Archibald Maclauchlane,t 
 who was subsequently married to one of Robert Foulis's daughters. t 
 
 Of the transactions at the Academy we have but little information. 
 The following extracts from letters, written at different periods, contain 
 almost all that is known. The first was written in 1753 or 1754. 
 
 * Scots Mag. 1759, p. 47. 
 
 t One of the best copies by jMaclauclilaiie, wliile at Rome, was from Raphael's cele- 
 brated picture of the School of Athens. " This work," says Lord Buciian, "fell into the 
 hands of a dealer, where it was mucli injured, and afterwards, through neglect, almofi 
 (|uite dellroyed." (Some IMemoranda concerning the Undertaking of Messrs Foulis, 
 Printers at Glasgow, p. 9, note). 
 
 X Mrs Dewar to the Earl of Buchan, May, 1808. Richardson's Letter, p. 12.
 
 85 
 
 « The Magazines of Vertu have not yet efcaped the dangers of the 
 leas, but thofe that have arrived anfwer the expectations of the pubhc, 
 fo as to excite an imiverfal curiofity. The Saint Ceciha fupports his 
 character as an original of Raphael, and the Carrying to the Tomb, an 
 original by the fame mailer, is one of the nobleft pieces of painting I 
 ever faw. The Duke of Hamilton having ^eneroufly offered us the 
 liberty of copying or engraving an[y] of his pictures, the painter is ftill 
 there. He finillied lirll a copy of the Supper of Emmaus by Titian, 
 and his copy is elleemed a faithful and beautiful reprefentation of the 
 original. The next piClure he attempted was the moll celebrated 
 piClure in Scotland, — Daniel in the Den of Lions,* — the fize of life, an 
 original piClure by Rubens, for which it is faid the family refufed a 
 thoufand guineas. This piclure, by reafbn of its great dimenfions, 
 cou'd not be copy'd without making a thoro' trial of the abilities of the 
 copyill, which oblig'd him to copy at a great dillance from the original, 
 and this is fo well approv'd, that I have not heard one that have [has] 
 feen it, that has not declared great fatiffaClion. It was finifli'd a few days 
 ago, and placed up in the Duke['s] gallery on his birthday. I have 
 been allured by feveral that were prefent, that it gave univerfal latii- 
 faClion to a great company of nobility and gentry who were prefent. 
 He has now begun to copy a piClure of a Treaty between England and 
 Germany or Flanders in queen Elizabeth's time. This piClure is not 
 only valuable as a piece of painting, but as a piece of hillory, and [for] 
 the portraits of fo many celebrated perfons, all whofe names are on the 
 piClure. It belonged to the Earl of Sunderland, and was made a pre- 
 fent of by him to the then Earl of Hamilton. The ftory is, that my 
 Lord Sunderland gave him the choice of all his piClures ; not expecling 
 that he wou'd have chofen that one, he offered him his choice of any 
 other two to part with it. The next we propofe to copy in Hamilton 
 
 * "Glafcuae Odob. 1767. Jacobus Coutts Efq'- Mebr. Parliamenli pro urbe Ediiihurgo, 
 ac eminens Banker Londini, vifitabat Academiam hie, ac emit a Rob. et And. Foulis 
 piduras fiipra valorem £100 Sterl. inter qsias emit piAnram Daiiielis in fpecu Leonnni, 
 niagnae formse pret. 50 Guineas." Fleming's Diary.
 
 86 
 
 is a portrait of the Earl of Danby by Vandyke ; but before that is done, 
 I am determined to have him return to Glalgow to work after nature 
 and Raphael, and in the beginning of winter to expofe all that is hitherto 
 done to public view, in order to excite emulation, and to have fome 
 little prizes for drawing. We have one scholar already, from whom we 
 expe6l reputation and goQd fervice. Our engraver is employ'd in doing 
 a full-length pidlure of the Duke of Argyle : as it is large, — all done 
 with the graver, — and a great deal of work in feveral parts of it, I don't 
 expert to fee it publilhed before winter. If its appearance on paper be 
 fuitable to its appearance on copper, it will be a maflerpeice." 
 
 The next letter relative to the Academy is dated January, 1763, and 
 addressed by Robert Foulis to Mr Yorke. William Cochrane, the artist, 
 who is mentioned in it, after having given sufficient proofs of his genius 
 at GlasiTOw, was sent to the continent, w^here he remained for five 
 years,* — principally at Rome, and under the celebrated Gavin Hamil- 
 ton. "I am greatly obliged to you," says Robert Foulis, " for the kind 
 manner in which you received Willy Cochrane, for the recommendations 
 you honoured him with, and above all for your procuring for him a fafe 
 pafTage in a man-of-war, w^here he met with the greatell civilities and 
 kindnefs on your account, and arrived at Naples free from [of] all 
 expence. I am perfuaded, at his return, he will be a hiftory painter of 
 a rank to do honour to his benefa6lors and his country. 
 
 " The Academy is now coming into a Hate of tolerable maturity. 
 We have modelling, engraving, original hiflory-painting, and portrait 
 painting, — all in a reputable degree of perfe6lion. In the morning our 
 more advanced ftudents sketch hiflorical fubje6ls from Plutarch's Lives 
 and other ancient books. The day is employed in painting and engrav- 
 ing, and by the younger fcholars in drawing. In the evening they draw 
 three days a week after a model, and other three after calls of plaifler 
 from the antique." 
 
 Cochrane ultiuiately returned to Glasgow, where he practised as a 
 
 * Mrs Dcwar to tlic Earl of Buclinn, May, 1808.
 
 87 
 
 portrait painter for many years. Attachment to an aged mother in- 
 duced him to remain there, and consequently he never rofe to that 
 eminence which lie might otherwise have attained. He died in October, 
 1785, at the early age of forty-seven, and by permission of the magis- 
 trates a marble tablet was erected to his memory in the choir of the 
 cathedral. * 
 
 An imperfect letter, addressed to a nobleman in February, 1764, 
 gives the following account of the labours of the students : — 
 
 " We have lately call off a few fetts of the principal prints we have 
 engrav'd : They wou'd make a volume between 60 and 70 flieets of 
 royal paper the full breadth of the llieet. Charles Cordiner has made 
 three drawings, 2 after the ruins of the Callle of Bothwell, and one 
 after the Caflle of Crookllon, with the Ewe Tree, which I have caufed 
 to be neatly etched, and put his name to them as y** drawer. He is now 
 able to make a good copy of any pi6lure, and I propofe to try him foon 
 at portraits. We are fucceeding pretty well in that branch. The 
 portrait of my Lord and Lady Glencairn, the two young ladies, Lady 
 Dorothy Primrofe, and others w*"'' we have done, among which are 
 feveral full-lengths, have been generally commended." 
 
 Nothing is known of the progress of the academicians at a later 
 date, except what Foulis himself has said in the preface to the catalogue 
 of pictures in IJ'jG. 
 
 " The Eflays in Landfcape that were done by Robert Paul a little 
 before his death have that fimplicity which promifes fuperior excellence. 
 His view of the weft ftreet, called the Trongate, of Glafgow, is the 
 moft capital, as it is the laft of his works, and was finiflied after his 
 death by William Buchanan. 
 
 " There are a conliderable number of the prints in Raphael's Bible 
 done by the late William Buchanan which fliow his ability as a drawer 
 and engraver. His Paul preaching at Athens and the other Cartoons 
 he engraved, and laft of all, Raphael's Tranffiguration, which he had 
 
 * Life of Cochrane in Chalmers' Biograph. Diet. His epitaph is inserted in Scots 
 Mag., 1810, p. 97.
 
 88 
 
 nearly finillied wlien he died, done from the pi6lure reverfed in a mirror, 
 are convincing proofs of his merit. 
 
 " Nor can I neglect on this occafion to do juflice to James Mitchell, 
 who, although the nearnefs of his light difqualified him for a common 
 profeiTion, yet in a few weeks made a furprizing progrefs, and his en- 
 gravings, after he attained experience, have been favorably received by 
 the public. Several of his performances in Raphael's Bible are much 
 fuperior, both in conception and execution, to Chaperon. His print of 
 Daniel in the Den of Lions, after Rubens' pi6tare in his Grace the 
 Duke of Hamilton's Colle6lion, has been well received. He engraved 
 alfo four of the Cartoons, Mount ParnaiTus and the School of Athens, 
 and has laboured with fuccefs both after Raphael and Correggio. 
 
 " The EfTays in original Hiflory-Painting tliat have been finillied 
 are not numerous ; but there are fome which were done at Rome by 
 Meffieurs Cochrane and M'Lauchlane that do them honor, although 
 their manners are fo different that their works cannot be compared with 
 propriety. 
 
 " There are fome drawings and pictures by David Allan, before he 
 went abroad, that are done with invention and fpirit, and are furprizing 
 at fo early a period." 
 
 The last letter on this subject which we shall insert, was written by 
 Robert Foulis to Lord Mountstuart in 1776. 
 
 " Robert Foulis, Printer to the Univerlity of Glafgow, prefents his 
 humble refpects to Lord Mount-Stuart to acquaint his Lordlhip, that 
 he prefumes to give him this trouble, encouraged by Colonel Edmonllon, 
 by Mr Thomas Kennedy his nephew, and by Mr Campbell of Shawfield. 
 The circumllance of the death of his brother and other friends, and his 
 own advancement to the extremity of life having made it proper that he 
 ihould put an end to his labours in the fervice of the Fine Arts, and 
 difpofe of his Collections ; in that view he has brought to London his 
 Prints, Drawings, and Pictures. Three nights' Sale of the Prints are in 
 a Catalogue that comes along with this : the whole would have been 
 continued, but Mr Sandford's engagements permitted no more, and he 
 was of opinion that it was too many for the interell of the Proprietor,
 
 89 
 
 as it was fo late in the year. His Colledlion, which will likewife be 
 difpofed off, of Drawings is very numerous, and contains capital defigns 
 of tlie leading maflers and their difciples of every fchool. He printed a 
 Catalogue of his Pictures before he left Glafgow, containing defcriptions 
 and critical remarks, which were made when in view of the Pi6lures, 
 one of which he has fent by the Bearer, which he hopes Lord Mount 
 Stuart will be fo good as to accept. He will find the Colle6lion made 
 in Syflem, and as the Collector believed the Roman School enjoyed more 
 advantages tlian any other, and Raphael the greatefl mafler and moll 
 amiable genius that ever any of the fchools poffeffed, fo he accordingly 
 dire6led his ambition to acquire as many pi6lures and drawings of 
 Raphael as he could poffibly difcover by the moil diligent fearch. 
 What fuccefs he had has appeared to thofe who have been able and 
 willing to examine the pi6lures ; the whole makes a progrefs of Raphael 
 from his early times to his lafl period, and on that account are curious, 
 as they Ihow his gradual progrefs and changes of manner ; but there are 
 five or fix fo capital, that I have never heard of any Colle6lion on fale, 
 that contained fo many. Neither his pi6lures in the Vatican, nor thofe 
 procured by princes, nor thofe fixed in public places have ever entered 
 into commerce, which renders it difficult to procure capital pi6lures of 
 this JNIafler, yet in this Colleclion will be found, upon a fi:ri6l examina- 
 tion, an original of the Carrying of our Saviour to the Tomb, more per- 
 fe6l than the Borghefe, — an original of the Saint Cecilia on a different 
 ground from the Bologna, the one being a landfcape with a blue fky, 
 and the other completely dark without landfcape, and the figures much 
 improved, particularly in expreffion. Alfo a pi6lure of Theagenes and 
 Chariclea in the Temple of Diana, of wonderful grace, and of which I 
 have never heard of any repetition ; the Refurre6lion of our Saviour, of 
 which the firft effay, which is not fo compleat in grouping or expreffion, 
 has been engraved. But there is one pi6lure more, the Tranf figuration, 
 not fo large as the Roman pi6lure, but in many other refpe6ls better ; 
 your Lordfliip will find the differences in the Catalogue, and the grounds 
 of its priority, W'hich has been proved to the fatiffa6lion of painters, and 
 many excellent judges, and is flill fubmitted to the reviews of all who 
 
 M
 
 90 
 
 choofe to examine. I forefee from tlie prefent unfavorable circum- 
 ftances, that these pi6lures will be tranfported to fome foreign country, 
 whereas were they joyned to the Cartoons, they would be found to have 
 merit equal to theirs, and to be preferable as finiflied pi6lures before 
 patterns for tapeftry. Forgive this trouble from one w^ho has been long 
 honoured with the patronage of Lord Bute, although dillance and other 
 circumftances have made him in a manner forgot." 
 
 Although the Academy has always, and deservedly, been considered 
 a failure, it was the means of raising David Allan and James Tassie 
 from obscurity. In regard to the last of these, it deserves particularly 
 to be noticed, that his first relish for the Fine Arts arose from visiting 
 the Academy on a holiday, when the pictures were exposed gratis to 
 pubhc view,* It has not been considered necessary to give any outline 
 of the lives of these persons, as their history is already well known. 
 
 Tlie Catalogue of Pictures, &c. to which this is prefixed, and for the 
 use of M'hich the writer is indebted to the kindness of David Laing, Esq. 
 is without date. The "Jerusalem Delivered" and " Aminta" of Tasso 
 are mentioned in it as intended for publication, illustrated with Le Clerc*s 
 designs. These, and several other Italian works in the same form, were 
 printed in 1763, and this may in some measure fix the date. It will 
 show better than any description that could be given, the extent to 
 whicli the labours of the artists at Glasgow were carried. 
 
 * One of these occasions is thus noticed in the Diary of Mr John Fleming, " a Glalgow 
 4. ,Tuin, 1770. Anjourd'hui, Lundi, fiit cclebre la naiffance du Roi, Les Tableaux 
 appartenans a Meflis. Foulis dans I'Academie a Glafgow etoient exhibees dans la Cour 
 intt'iieiire de I'Academie ici. 11 y avoit la foxde grande pour les regarder."
 
 A CATALOGUE 
 
 O F 
 
 PICTURES, DRAWINGS, PRINTS, 
 STATUES and BUSTS in Plaister of Paris, 
 
 DONE AT THE 
 
 ACADEMY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW. 
 
 In this Catalogue is- inferted a Colle6lion of Prints, the plates of which 
 
 are the property of R. and A. Foul is. 
 
 Publiflied for the ufe of Subscribers.
 
 93 
 PICTURES. 
 
 The onginah are to be seen at the Academy in Glasgotv, except the three follow- 
 ing, which are at Hamilton Palace. 
 
 SIZES. 
 
 6 feet 10 inches by 8 feet 
 10 inches. 
 
 PRICES. 
 
 COPY of the Convention at Somerfet-houfe, between 1. s. d 
 England, Spain, and Holland, from the famous 
 original in the poffeffion of his Grace the Duke of 
 Hamilton. It contains the portraits of Thomas Earl 
 of Dorfet, Lord High Treafurer, Charles Earl of 
 Nottingham, Lord High Admiral, Charles Earl of 
 Devonihire, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Henry Earl 
 of Northampton, of the Privy Council, Robert Cecil, 
 
 Firft Secretary of State Juan de Velafco, Conftable 
 
 of Caftile and Duke de Frias, Don Juan de Taflis, 
 Count de Villamediana, Alexandro Rovidio, Senator 
 of Milan. — From the States General, Charles Prince 
 and Count d'Aremberghe, Lord High Admiral, Pre- 
 fident Richardote, Counfellor of State, Luis Verrey- 
 ken, Firft Secretary of State. All as large as life. 70 00 
 
 7 feet 4 inches by 10 feet Daniel in the den of lions, after the famous original of 
 
 10 inches. _- .. „ ^..^ , ^, 
 
 Rubens in the poffeffion of his Grace the Duke of 
 Hamilton. 52 
 
 10 
 
 4 feet 11 inches by 7 feet The Supper of Emaus, after a pidure of Titian's, in the 
 '''^''"'' poffeffion of his Grace the Duke of Hamilton. 10 00 
 
 7 feet I inch by 4 feet 8 St. Cccilia, after Raphael. 
 
 l-half inches. 
 
 5 feet 10 inches by 4 feet 5 Galatea, after Raphael. 
 
 inches. 
 
 4 feet 6 inciies by 5 feet 1 The four Stages of Life, after Titian. 
 
 l-ha!f inch. 
 
 SO 00 
 22 00 
 
 5 feet 8 inches by 7 feet 4 The Martyrdom of St. Catharine of Alexandria, from a 
 
 fine original. 15 00 
 
 12 00 
 
 5 feet 3 inches by 4 feet 1 Magdalen with two Augcls, after Guido; the fame 
 i-haif inch. ^^^^^^ ^.^j^ ^j^^^ .^ ^j^g Barbarini Palace at Rome. 6 00 
 
 5 feet 1 inch by 4 feet 3 The Judgment of Paris, after de la Hire. 
 
 inches. 
 
 6 06
 
 94 
 SIZES. PICTURES. PRICES. 
 
 1. s. d. 
 
 3 feet 1 inch by 4 feet 9 A vicw of Glafgow, and of Lord George Sackville's 
 
 ' '""^ ^^' dragoons review'd in the Green. 8 08 
 
 3 feet 2 1-haif inches by 2 David and Goliah's head, after Guido Cangiaclo. 8 00 
 
 feet 8 inches. 
 
 3 feet 4 inciies by 2 feet 7 Acis and Galatea, 3 03 
 
 1-half inches. 
 
 3 feet 4 inches by 2 feet 8 A Sybil, after a copy by Boulogne from Guido. 8 08 
 
 inches. 
 
 4 feet 1 1-half inch by 3 Defccnt from the Crofs, after an original by Rubens. 
 feet 2 inches. rpj^^ j^^.^^ pidure is at Antwerp, and juftly admired 
 
 by all connoilTeurs. 12 12 
 
 2 feet 7 inches by 3 feet 4 The Judgment of Hercules according to the Earl of 
 i.haif inches. Shaftesbury's invention. 5 05 
 
 2 feet 4 inches by 1 foot 7 Three children reprefenting Infancy, after Titian. 2 02 
 
 inches. 
 
 3 feet 5 1-half inches by 4 Mutius Scaevola, after Valentini. 5 00 
 
 feet 3 inches. 
 
 3 feet 9 inches by 5 feet 4 The Adoration of the Shepherds (all the light refleded 
 i.haif inches. ^y^j^^ ^^xe infant Jefus) after a capital pidure by 
 
 Valentini. 7 07 
 
 3 feet 1 inch by 2 feet 1 Flight into Egypt, after Raphael. 
 
 inch. 
 
 3 feet 8 inches by 2 feet 9 A Holy Family, after Carlo Ciniani. 
 
 inches. 
 
 2 feet high by 3 feet 1 inch. A Magdalen reading, after Coreggio. 
 
 3 feet 7 inches by 2 feet 4 Young Tobias receiving his father's blefling upon his 
 '""^ "■ departure, after Imperiali. 
 
 3 feet 5 1-half inches by 4 A large Landskip, after de la Hire. 
 
 feet 1 1 inches. 
 
 3 feet by 2 feet 6 inches. Cupids playing on inflruments, after Coreggio. 
 
 3 feet 6 inches by 2 feet 6 Our Saviour appearing in the clouds to St. John, from 
 inches. , . o i r» 
 
 a drawing. ~ 10 
 
 3 
 
 03 
 
 
 3 
 
 03 
 
 
 6 
 
 06 
 
 
 2 
 
 12 
 
 OG 
 
 2 
 
 10 
 
 
 2 
 
 02 

 
 95 
 
 gj2ES. PICTURES. PRICES. 
 
 1. s. tl. 
 
 4 feet T inches by 3 feet i The Marriage of Caiia, an original. 5 05 
 
 inches. 
 
 4 feet 1 1-haif inch by 3 A Lanclskip, after Salvator Rofa. ~ 00 
 
 feet 3 3-4th inches. 
 
 The fame Lanclskip, fame fize. 
 
 1 01 
 
 1 foot 6 inches by 2 feet 6 A Lanclskip with a monaftery on a rock in the water, (the 
 
 i.imif inches. j^^^ ^.^.^^ L^ Clerc) with a white ornamented frame. 2 02 
 
 2 feet by 2 feet 8 inches. A Lanclskip, after Sebaftian Bourdon. 1 10 
 
 2 feet by 2 feet 8 inches. A Flemifli Landskip, after S. L. d. A. 1 10 
 
 1 foot u inches by 2 feet 8 The fame Landskip. 1 00 
 
 l-half inches. 
 
 3 feet 2 inches by 4 feet 4 St. Peter in prifon and the Angel who delivers hira, 
 
 l-half inches. p. /^ • i q r\^ 
 
 after Guido. -^ Oo 
 
 2 feet by 1 foot 6 l-half Pyramus and Thifbe, after Nicolas PoufTm. 2 02 
 
 inches. 
 
 2 feet 5 inches by 2 feet 1 A Sleeping Cupid, after Nicolas Pouffin. I 1 1 06 
 
 inch. 
 
 1 foot 6 inches by 2 feet 1 A view of Glafgow from below the bridge. 1 11 06 
 
 inch. 
 
 2 feet 1 iuch.by 2 feet 8 The bombardment of Bruflels, after Van Euile. 1 05 
 
 inches. 
 
 2 feet by 3 feet 1 inch. ^ ^j^^ ^f. q^^^^ ^^^ ^j^g Point-houfe. 1 05 
 
 1 foot 8 inches by 1 foot 2 Youth reprefented by a young lliepherdefs playing on 
 
 a flute, after Titian. 10 
 
 2 feet 1 Inch by 2 feet 1 A portrait, bv Peter di Cortona. 1 05 
 
 inch. L ' J ^ 
 
 2 feet 1 inch by 1 foot 7 ^ portrait of Raphael. I 01 
 
 l-half inches. '■ '■ 
 
 2 feet by 1 foot 5 inciies. A portrait of Titian. 1 1 
 
 1 foot 4 l-half inches by 1 The head of the Abbe le Tellier while Arabaflador at 
 
 foot 3-4ths of au inch. ,, ^ i-t ^ -i-rT 1 flD 
 
 Rome to Clement XI. ' ^"
 
 SIZES. 
 
 96 
 PICTURES. 
 
 •RICES. 
 
 
 s. cl 
 
 
 01 
 
 
 01 
 
 
 01 
 
 
 00 
 
 
 00 
 
 1 foot 11 inches by 1 foot 7 ^ portrait of Annibal Caracci. 
 
 I-balf inches. 
 
 2 feet by 1 foot 7 inches. ^ portrait of RubenS. 
 
 A portrait of Rubens laft Lady, fame fize. 
 
 2 feet 1 inch by 1 foot 7 §,._ Peter, after Rubens. 
 
 inches. 
 
 St. Paul, after Rubens ; fame fize. 
 
 ■i feet 3 inches by 1 foot 9 A portrait of Lady Anne Ruthven, wife to Van Dyke, 
 
 ''"'''''• after Van Dyke. 1 01 
 
 1 foot 10 inches by 1 foot 6 j^ portrait of Rembrant. 1 01 
 
 inches. ^ 
 
 2 feet by 1 foot 8 inches. "Waller's Sachai-lffa, after Van Dyke. 1 01 
 
 1 foot by 10 inches. A portrait of Lady Dorothy Sidney, when young, in 
 
 the charaAer of a nymph of Diana. 12 
 
 2 feet 7 inches by 1 foot 10 ^ i)ortrait after Van Dyke. 1 01 
 
 inches. '■ 
 
 2 feet 1 inch by 1 foot 10 ^ Madona and Child, after Raphael. 1 01 
 
 inches. 
 
 1 foot 11 inches by 2 feet 8 ^ Waterftill and Landskip. 1 8 
 
 inches. 
 
 2.feetby3feetlinch. A view of Cathcart-caftle. 10 0() 
 
 2 feet by 2 feet 8 inches. A vieW of Locll-Lomond. 1 01 
 
 A different view of Loch-Lomond ; fame fize. 1 01 
 
 3 feet by 2 feet. A Waterfall in the Stockie-muir. 15 
 2 feet inches by 2 feet Virgin and Child wilh Augels, after Titian. 1 00 
 12 .3.4th inches by 1 foot 1 A Landskip with a mill, and a profpecl of a palace. l6 
 
 l-Uh inches. '■ > t t t 
 
 2 feet by 2 feet 8 inches. A Landskip with a vicw of a brick-caftle. 1 01
 
 97 
 SIZES. PICTURES. PRICES. 
 
 1. s. d. 
 
 1 foot 8 i-haif inches by 2 A view of the Rotuiido, With a fore-grouiid from fancy- 17 
 
 feet. '' 
 
 ■i feet by 1 foot 7 inches. Fauftina, after the Antique. 1 00 
 
 ■2 feet by 1 foot 8 inches. Lucretia, after Michael Angelo. 18 06" 
 
 1 foot 5 inches by 1 foot 3 An old Man ftudying Aflronomy, after Gerard Dau. ( 05 
 
 inches. 
 
 An old. Woman reading, its companion^ after Do. fame fize. I 05 
 
 2 feet by 3 feet. A Flemifli Landskip. 1 05 
 
 Its companion ; fame fize. 1 ] o 
 
 1 foot 10 inches by 1 foot 6 A portrait of a Fleming, after Rembrant. " 15 
 
 inches. 
 
 His wife, its companion, fame fize, after Do. The ori- 
 ginals are in the Palais Royale. 1 5 
 
 1 foot 9 l.lialf inches by 1 A Coffack. 12 
 foot 3 1-half inches. 
 
 3 feet. A Landskip, after Jan Sling, a difciple of Claud Lorrain. 1 1 1 06 
 1 foot 2 inches by 11 indies. Magdalen, a head out of Raphael's Carrying to the Tomb. 1 01 
 
 1 foot 3 inches by 12 inches. Nicodemus, a head from the fame picture. 1 01 
 
 16 l-half inches by 14 inches. A head of St. Francis. 1 01 
 
 2 feet 7 inches by 2 foot. A St. Catharine reading. 1 05 
 10 inches by 14. A Storm at Sea. 06 
 15 inches by 14. A Storm at Sea, different. 06 
 14 inches by 11. The Virgin's head, from Leon, da Vinci's picture. 15 
 2 feet 1 inch by 1 fct 7 St. John Baptift. . 101 
 
 inches.
 
 98 
 SIZES PICTURES. PRICES. 
 
 1. s. d. 
 2 feet 1-haif inch by 2 feet \ Piecc of ArchiteAure reprefenting a grand palace 
 8. -half inches. with a number of figures. 3 03 
 
 1 1 i-haif inches by i» i-haif. Our Saviouf's head as taken from Veronica's handkerchief. 1 2 
 
 1 foot 11 inches by 2 fe.t 7 A Landskip, after Fouquieres. ] 00 
 
 inches. 
 
 2 feet 1 inch by 1 foot G Our Saviour's head, after Julio Romano. 1 01 
 
 3.Uh inches. 
 
 2 feet 7 inches by 2 feet I A Landskip with rocks, after Salvator Rofa. L2 
 
 l.half inch. 
 
 loinchesbys, A Fleming, after Polbus. 12 
 
 A head of Van Dyke, fame fize. 12 
 
 SIZES ana NUMBERS. DRAWINGS. 
 
 I toot II inches by 1 ] _ Cupid making his Bow, after Correggio, in crayons, with 
 
 a gilt frame and glazed. 2 02 
 
 I foot 9 inches by 1 o, St Sebaftian in red chalk, framed and glazed. 1 00 
 
 foot 4 inches. 
 
 ifootouhaif inciios 3. A Pot of Flowers, highly finiilied in red chalk, in an 
 by 2 feet 2 ini les. ornamented compartment of invention in black chalk, 
 
 framed and glazed. 3 03 
 
 4. A Grotefque Ornament in red chalk, framed and glazed. OS 
 
 5. Another in black lead, framed and glazed. 09 
 
 6. Another in ink, framed and glazed. 05 
 
 7. Le Bran's Paffions, copied with a pen and red ink, at 
 
 2s. 6d. each. 
 Tile fame, Avhen in red chalk, 3&. each. 
 
 8. Different Views of Glafgow, as well as the Country and 
 
 Seats round it, in pen and ink, from 5 to l.')s. each, 
 y. Moil of the above Views, sketched in black chalk, from 
 
 1 to 5s. each. 
 10. Landskips, from fancy, sketched in black lead or black 
 chalk, from 1 to 3s.
 
 99 
 NUMBERS. DRAWINGS. 
 
 PRICES. 
 
 1. 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 06 
 
 
 
 02 
 
 06 
 
 
 
 01 
 
 06 
 
 
 
 01 
 
 06 
 
 
 
 01 
 
 06 
 
 
 
 01 
 
 06 
 
 11. A Drawing in red chalk after a piclure of the Madona. 
 
 12. Our Saviour and St. John by Raphael. 
 
 13. An Angel's head in red chalk. 
 
 1 4. Head of a Madona in black chalk and blue paper. 
 
 15. Head of Apollo, from fancy. 
 
 16. Head of Adonis, from fancy, in black chalk on blue paper. 
 17- Head of Venus, from fancy, in black chalk on blue paper. 
 1 8. Head of Homer, from fancy, as reciting his verfes, in black 
 
 chalk on blue paper. , 01 06 
 
 19- Head of the Virgin, from fancy, as repeating the Mag- 
 nificat, in black chalk on blue paper. 01 06 
 
 20. More heads, from fancy, from Is. to 2s. 6d. each. 
 
 21. Copied in red chalk from Mr. Strange's Madona after 
 
 Guido, framed and glazed. 10 06 
 
 22. Copied in red chalk from Mr. Strange's Angel after 
 
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 26. Heads from Pictures or Drawings, in red or black chalk, 
 
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 to 1 5s. 
 
 28. Academy figures from the life, as well as from other draw- 
 
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 29. Drawings after Compofitions of the Capital Mailers, 
 
 with pen and ink, and with black and red chalk, from 
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 30. Heads in crayons. 
 
 31. Several other ftudies of heads, hands, legs, and arms, 
 
 for the ufe of beginners, at various prices. 
 
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 I'he plates of v>hicli are in the possession ofR. and A. Foulis. 
 The number of plates 
 
 in each set. HISTORICAL and POETICAL, PRICES. 
 
 1. s. d. 
 6 Repi-efenting ftories of the Heathen Gods. Stephanus 
 
 de Laune fecit, A. D. 1573. 2d. each. 01 
 
 19 Poetical pieces, befules a frontifpiece, by the lame, at 2d. each. 03 04- 
 
 1 1 Small poetical pieces of an oval form, by the fame, at 2d. each. 01 10 
 1 6 Smaller mythological oval pieces from Ovid, by the fame, 
 
 at Id. halfpenny each. 02 
 
 6 Hiftorical pieces, very fmall, ovals and circles, and when 
 
 in pairs 3d. the pair, by the fame. 00 Op 
 
 12 Reprefenting the 12 months and figns of the Zodiac, by 
 
 the fame, 02 
 
 7 Reprefenting the 7 planets with the figns of the Zodiac, 
 
 by the fame. 01 
 
 4 Reprefenting the 4 parts of the world, by the fame. 00 08 
 
 5 Being 2 fets of peace and war, plenty and famine, by 
 
 the fame, each fet at 00 08 
 
 A Concert of Mufic, after a famous pidure by Dominico 
 
 Zampieri commonly called Dominichine. C. Duflos 
 
 fculpfit. 00 0() 
 
 Aeneas and Anchifes, Creufa and lulus, flying from 
 
 Troy, after Dominichino. Jaco fculpfit. 00 06 
 
 Menelaus cured by Machaon, all the Grecian Chiefs feem 
 
 much affecfled. The fi;ory is taken from Homer's Iliad. 00 06 
 Alexander hunting the Lion, and its companion 
 
 Jafon's landing at Colchis. Both by de la Fofle, at 3d. each. 00 06 
 The Induftry of Penelope, in the abfence of Ulyfles. 
 
 Corncille pinxit. Maria Hortomels fculpfit. 00 06 
 
 Sappho playing on the lyre and finging in the prefence 
 
 of the Mufes, Fourbain fculpfit. 00 06 
 
 Rhodope, Queen of Egypt, looking at the pyramid (he 
 
 had caufed to be built, by the fame. 00 06 
 
 Thei/ may serve as compajtions, being all three of the 
 same size. 
 The Triumpli of Flora. Poullin pinxit. M. Hortniels 
 
 Iciilpfit. And
 
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 l^he number of plates 
 
 in each set. iKlNio. PRICES. 
 
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 Its companion. The Triumph of Neptune. Mignard 
 
 pinxit. M. Hortmels fculpfit. 6d. each. 01 
 
 2 Converlation Pieces, by de la Hire. Hauffard fculpfit. 
 
 4d. each. 00 08 
 
 Swifs guards and others looking over a flair-cafe, by C 
 le Brun. In the grand (lair-cafe at Verfailles. Flip- 
 part fculpfit. 00 04 
 1 9 Le Pautre's Drawing-book in 1 8 plates befides his own 
 
 portrait. 05 
 
 4 The Seafons, with verfes under them, half flieet prints. 
 
 4d. each. 
 l6 Rural pieces by Simonneau, at 3d. each. 
 
 2 Venus piqued by Love, and its companion 
 Love piqued by Venus, 3d. each. 
 
 3 Bacchus, Ceres, and a Bacchante, at 3d. each. 
 Venus rifing fi-om the foam of the fea ; a flieet print. 
 Aurora preceding the Sun. Le Soeur invenit. 
 Daphne flying from Apollo, HoUafi^e pinxit. Flipart fculpfit. 
 
 6 Pieces of fcenery by Chauveau, viz. 
 
 1 . The Star of Venus, with a beautiful varied fcene 
 
 of architecture. 
 
 2. Aeolus, with a fine rural fcene of archited;ure. 
 
 3. Juno in her chariot, with a noble fcene of archi- 
 
 tecture. 
 
 4. Her taking place of Cepheus, a grand fcene of 
 
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 5. Melpomene meeting the chariot of the Sun, a rural 
 
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 6. Perfeus and Andromeda, a terrible fcene of rocks 
 
 in the fea, with a diflant view. 3d. each. 
 
 4 Reprefenting a Quack DoClor. 
 
 5 Drolls and Caricaturas. 
 8 Callot's Beggars, 4 large and 4 fmaller. 3d. each. 
 
 The Hours of the Day, a ceiling piece. Blanchard 
 
 pinxit. Simonneau fculpfit. 00 06 
 
 Jupiter and Prometheus, idem. Mignard pinxit. C. 
 
 Depuis fculpfit. 00 06 
 
 Its companion, Pfyche prefented to the Gods. idem. 
 
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 Mars throwing the thunder with emblems of war. idem. 
 
 Le Brun pinxit. M. Hortniels fculpfit. 
 Its companion, Peace with its emblems, idem, by lame. 
 
 6d. each. 01 
 
 Time carrying away Truth, idem. A Iheet print. N. Pouflin. 01 
 Time difcovering Truth, with a motto of eternity, envy, 
 
 and defpair. idem. A flieet print. N. Poullin. 01 
 
 Mercury attending and hovering over the Arts and Sci- 
 ences, idem. Corneille pinxit. M. Hortmels fculpfit. 00 06 
 44 Reprefenting 87 converfation pieces, different attitudes 
 
 and compofitions. French, 
 37 Women of different nations, by Hollar. 
 4 The Seafons, with French and Englilh names. 3d. each. 
 
 4 The Seafons, by Vignon. 3d. each. 
 
 5 The Senfes, by the fame. 
 4 The 4 Parts of the World, by the fame. 
 4 The Elements, by the fame. 
 4 The 4 Parts of the Day, by the fame. 
 4 Paris and the 3 Goddefles, by the fame. 
 
 30 Paris Cries and Cuftoms. 
 Iphigenia. 
 
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 Harpalice delivering her father Lycurgus. Vignon pinx. 
 
 M. Hortmels fcul. 
 Europa, an etching by Cofin after Le Fage. 
 Heroic Virtue vi<5torious over Vice. And 
 The Senfual Man. both after Correggio. at 4d. each. 
 Allronomy. Raphael pinxit in Vaticano. N. Boquet fculpfit. 
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 Adam and Eve tempted by the ferpent, from Raphael, 
 
 by Boquet. 00 06 
 
 The Judgment of Solomon, from the fame, by Boquet. 00 06 
 
 All the four are companions. 
 30" Reprefenting the hiltory of the Old Teltaraent, by Steph. 
 
 de Laune. 03 
 
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 3 More of the New Teflament, by Picart. 00 06 
 
 8 Reprefenting the 4 Evangeh'lls, and 4 other remarkable 
 
 paffages of Scripture, chez Gallays. Id. halfpenny each. 01 
 10 Reprefenting the chief ftages of our Saviour's Paflion, his 
 
 refurre<5lion, &c. by H. Goltzius. 3d. each, in all 02 06 
 
 The Marriage of Cana, by the fame, the fame fize. 00 03 
 
 Our Saviour walking on the fea and fupporting St. Peter, 
 
 who is ready to fink, by R. Sadler, jun. 00 06 
 
 A dead Chrifl with angels weeping ; ufually called a Pieta. 
 
 De la Hire invenit et fecit. 
 A Mater Dolorofa, its companion, by the fame. 
 Plates invented by Annibal Carraccio, and engraved by 
 S. Guillain; 
 
 1. Our Saviour. 
 
 2. The Aflumption of the Virgin. 
 
 3. St. John the Baptift. 
 
 4. St. John the Evangelift. 
 
 5. St. Laurence. 
 
 6. St. Francis. 
 St. Jerom meditating on the laft Judgment, an angel by 
 
 him. Jof. Heintz pinxit. L Kilian fculpfit. 01 
 
 Jofeph and Potiphar's Wife. Albano pinxit. M. Hort- 
 
 mels fculpfit. 00 04 
 
 The Virgin, our Saviour, and St. John, alluding to that 
 part of Scripture where St. John accounts himfelf ^ 
 unworthy to loofe our Saviour's fandals. De la Hire 
 inv. et fecit. 00 06 
 
 The Virgin and St. Jofeph, our Saviour pulling a palm 
 
 branch out of their hands, by the fame. 00 06 
 
 The Virgin and Child, with angels fupporting and car- 
 rying the crofs, by the fame. 00 06 
 
 The Virgin and Child with St. Catharine. Van Dyke 
 inv. Ragot fculp. 
 
 The Virgin and Child. Stella in. Couvay fculpfit. 
 
 The Virgin and our Saviour. Carlo Maratti inv. Dor- 
 meillier fculpfit. 
 
 The Virgin and Babe. Gallays excudit. 
 
 The Virgin, our Saviour, and St. John, by Chauveaii. 
 
 
 
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 15 Reprefenting our Saviour, St. John Baptift, and the 12 
 
 Apoftles. Gallays excudit. 2d. each, the fet at 
 The Crucifixion, after Le Brun. 
 Our Saviour taken down from the crofs. N. Pouffin 
 
 pinxit. F. Chauveau fculpfit. 01 
 
 The Carrying to the Tomb. Fred. Baroccius pinxit. 
 
 Sadler fculp. 
 The fame fubjecft. Tintoret pinxit. L. Kilian fculpfit. 
 The RefurreClion of our Saviour. P. Cagliari Veronenfis 
 
 pinxit. L. Kilian fculpfit. 
 The raifing of Lazarus. J. Palma pinxit. L. Kilian fculpfit. 
 The Martyrdom of a Saint. P. Cagliari inv. P. Bre- 
 
 biette fculpfit. 00 03 
 
 14 Different fized facred hiftories, from 2d. to 6d. each. 
 14 Different reprefentations of the Crucifixion, from ld.to4d. 
 50 Saints and Religious Perfons, different fizes, from Id, to 
 
 Cd. each. 
 
 16 Prints on 8 plates, of the fame fize, reprefenting faints 
 
 and facred hiftory, at 3d. a pair. 02 
 
 32 Prints on 15 plates, different fizes, moflly fmall, facred 
 fubjedls. One of the plates contains 4 prints, all fmall, 
 from Id. to 4d. each. 
 3 The lafl Supper, Afcenfion, and laft Judgment, at 4d. 01 
 
 6" Plates reprefenting the hiftory of Tobias by Maurpech. 
 
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 12 Reprefenting the Hiftory of the Old and New Teftament, 
 on large half fheets, Gio. Ben. Caftiglione inv. C. 
 Mace fculp. 6d. each. 05 
 
 3 Reprefenting different fat'ls in St. Anthony's life. A. 
 
 Carrach invenit. S. G. fculpfit. 00 0() 
 
 Zippora circumcifeth her fon. 01 
 
 St. Jerom tempted in the Wildernefs. Dorainico Zampieri 
 
 detto Dominichino pinxit. 01 
 
 Our Saviour permitting him to be whipt as a Ciceronian, 
 
 a vifion, by the fame. 01 
 
 The Sacrament of Baptifm, by the fame. All fheet prints. 01 
 The pictures of the above three prints are to be leen 
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 3 The fame three in fmall. 6d. each. 
 10 Sacred Emblems, at 3d. each. 
 
 The Virgin and Child. Blanchard pinx. Buret Iculpfit. 
 10 Our Saviour, the Virgin, 4 Evangeliils, and fome Apoftles ; 
 ovals with garlands of flowers round them. 2d. halfpenny 
 each. 
 2 Jefus and Mary, 3d. each. 
 
 Our Saviour. Jac. Blanchard pinxit. Petr. Daret fculp 
 The Virgin, by the fame hand. Companions and half-lheet prints 
 St. Francifcus de Paulo, half-length. John Lenfant fculp. 
 A Magdalen, by Jof Ribiera detto. Spagnoletto. 
 
 The following is a Collection of Whole-length Figures. 
 An Ecce Homo. D. Humbelot inv. Ae. Roulielet fecit. 6 
 
 2 Jefus Amabilis and Mater Amabilis. C. le Brun inv. Rouflelet 
 fculpfit. 6d. each. 
 Regina Martyrum. Rouifelet inv. et fecit. 
 St. Jofeph. De la Hire invenit. Couvay fecit. 
 St. John the Baptift. by the fame. Rouifelet fecit. 
 St. John the Evangelift. by the fame. Rouflelet fecit. 
 St. Auffufl;in. C. le Brun invenit. Roufl"elet fecit. 
 St. Agnes. De la Hire invenit. Roufl^elet fecit. 
 St. Benedi6lus. by the fame. Roufl"elet fecit. 
 St. Francis, by the fame. Roufl"elet fecit. 
 St. Sebafl;ian. by the fame. Rouflelet fecit. 
 St. Scholaftica. by the fame. Roufl"elet fecit. 
 St. Genevieve, by the fame. Roufl^elet fecit. 
 St. Bruno. C. le Brun invenit. Roufl"elet fecit. 
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 St. Claudius, by the fame. Couvay fecit. 
 St. Urfula, by the fame. Rouifelet fecit. 
 St. Gulielmus. by the fame. Couvay fecit. 
 St. Carolus Magnus, by the fame. Couvay fecit. 
 St. Lewis, by the fame. Roufl"elet fecit. 
 St. Catherine, by the fame. Rouifelet fecit. 
 St. Anthony, by the fame. Couvay fecit. 
 St. Nicolas, by the fame. Couvay fecit. 
 St. Helena, by the fame. Rouifelet fecit. 
 
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 St. Hieronymus. Auguftine Carrach invenit. C. Galle fculplit. 
 St. Mary Magdalen. Blanchard pinxit. Stella iculpfit. 
 St. Bernard, by C. le Brun. Rouffelet fecit. 
 A Guardian Angel. Couvay fecit. 
 
 All the above are upon half flieets. 
 St. Philip the Apoftle. 8 
 
 STATUES. 
 
 20 Small Statues on feven plates. Joannes de Laune filius def. 
 
 Stephanus pater fculpfit A. D. 1573. 1 
 
 13 Reprefenting Minerva or Genius, Science, and 11 Arts and 
 
 Sciences, ovals, by Stephanus de Laune. 1 
 
 8 Reprefenting the Cardinal and Heroic Virtues, ovals, by fame. 8 
 32 Heathen Gods and Demigods, by Caracci. 2d. each. 4 
 
 The Rape of the Sabines, by John de Boulogne. Natoire del. 
 
 Defplaces fculpfit. 6 
 
 The Bath of Apollo, by Girardon and Regnaudin. Thomafin 
 
 delin. et fculpfit, 1 6 
 
 2 The Horfes of the Sun, by Gerin, in two views. Thomafin 
 
 del. et fculp. 1 6 
 
 The Triumph of Apollo, by Thierry. And 
 The Triumph of Amphitrite, its companion, by the fame. 
 
 Thomafin del. et fculpfit. 1 6 
 
 The fl;atue of Vidory or Fame a horfe-back, by Coifveau. And 
 The ftatue of Mercury a horfeback, its companion, by the 
 
 fame. Thomafin del. et fculpfit. 1 6 
 
 Thefe two laft are placed in the grand-entry to the 
 Tuilleries. 
 Diana and Endymion, by Thierry. Thomafin fculpfit. 1 
 
 Victory over the Empire. Thomafin fculpfit. 4 
 
 Victory over Spain. Surugue fculpfit. 4 
 
 2 Peace and Plenty. Surugue fculpfit. 8 
 12 The twelve Months. C. le Brun invenit. engraved by Surugue 
 
 and others. 4 
 
 4 Reprefenting the Seafons, by Picart. 1 
 
 4 Reprefenting the 4 parts of the Day, by the fame. 1 6 
 
 4 Reprelenting the 4 parts of the World, by the lame. 1 
 
 3 The Rape of Prolerpine, a iliepherdefs, and Flora, by the 
 
 lame. 4d. each. 1
 
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 The number of i^lates 
 
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 Ornaments, most of them of use for Chasers, Stucco- 
 men and Goldsmiths. s. d. 
 
 18 Trophies, Battle-pieces, and Hunting-pieces, by Stephanus 
 
 de Laune. 2 3 
 
 12 Ornaments, emblematical of the arts and fciences, 6 of the 
 fciences with light grounds, by de Laune. 
 6 Square fmall emblematical ornaments for a Bible, by the fame. 
 
 6 Square fmall emblematical ornaments, poetical or hiftorical, 
 
 by the fame. 
 
 7 Various iliaped grotefque ornaments, by the fame. 
 
 8 Oval ornaments, grotefque, by the fame. 
 3 Larger ovals, reprefenting Bacchanals of Cupids, by the fame. 
 
 3 Smaller ovals, reprefenting grotefques, by the fame. 
 
 4 Circular grotefques. 
 2 Ovals larger than any above-mentioned, by Steph. de Laune. 
 
 10 Plates, containing feveral pieces on each plate, of various forms 
 
 and fizes. A book for the ufe of chafers and goldfmiths. 
 Jacques Collen inv. et fc. 
 l6 Sacred emblematical ornaments, of various fizes, by different 
 hands, 3 or 4 on a plate, from Id. to 6d. each. 
 
 1 1 Plates of various larger ornaments, for the ufe of ftucco-men 
 
 or carpenters, 2 or 3 on the fame plates, by different hands, 
 
 from 3d. to 4d. each. 
 6 Ornamented ceiling-pieces, with a frontifpiece, by le Moyn, 
 
 at 4d. each. 2 
 
 A fheet ornament, and two others fmaller, for placing a print 
 
 or infcription into. 6d. each, 
 A Chinefe Tree, on two fheets, with great variety of work. 2 
 
 PORTRAITS. 
 
 Charles XIL King of Sweden, at full length. ^ 3 
 
 Huygens engraved by Edelinck. 1 
 
 Michael le Tellier, Chancellor of France. F. Voet pinxit. 
 
 Edelinck fculp. 1 
 
 Guido Patin Parifienfis Medicus et Profeffor Regius. A. Malfon 
 
 pinx. et fc. 6 
 
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 The number of plates 
 
 in each set. Jr Iv 1 JN 1 o. PRICES. 
 
 s. d. 
 Valentin Conravt, Secretary to the French Academy, &c. C 
 
 le Fevre pinx. L. CoHin fculp. I 
 
 Caffini the famous Aftronomer, with a view of the Obferva- 
 
 tory at Paris. L, Coffin fculpfit. 6 
 
 J. D. Auvergne Pariiienfis, Arabicae linguae Profeflbr Regius. 
 
 J. Lenfant ad vivum faciebat. « 6 
 
 Malbranche. Rochfort fculpfit. G 
 
 Fra. Chauveau of the Royal Academy of painting and Iculpture. 
 
 Le Fevre pinxit. L. Coffin fecit. 6 
 
 Fr. Herard, Chirurgeon of Paris, famous for the operation of 
 
 the trepan and others. F. Siere pinxit. L. Coffin fculpfit. 6 
 J. Doujat, Dean of the French Academy, and Hifloriographer 
 
 to Lewis XIV. F. Sierre pinxit. L. Coffin fculpfit. 6" 
 
 Claudius de Hervy, Aedile of Paris, ^ 
 
 Anna Roufl!elet, his wife, V Lochon fculpfit. 9 
 
 Johannes de Hervy, Regi a Confiliis, 3 
 
 Johanna de Hervy. Alzenbach fculpfit. 3 
 
 Maria Depardieu, uxor nobilis Aegidii Morelli. I^ochon pofl 
 
 mortem delin. et fculpfit. 
 Claudius Morellus Abbas, frater Aegidii. by the fame. 
 Carolus Morellus. by the fame. 
 
 Fredericus Morellus, Profeffor and Royal Interpreter. 
 Gulielmus Blancus, Chamberlain to Sextus IV. Tho. de Jeu 
 
 fculpfit. 
 Armand Jean Boutilier, Premier Abbe de la Trappe. 
 Lewis Antoine de Noailles, Cardinal and Archbiiliop of Paris. 
 2 An old Man and his Wife, Mifers. 
 44 Portraits of French nobility, gentlemen and Ladies. 2d. each. 
 12 Heads by Rembrant copied. 
 The Dauphin's family. 
 Lewis IX. King of France. 
 
 LANDSKIPS, BEASTS and BIRDS &c. 
 
 8 Large views, by Hollar. 4d. each. 
 12 Smaller views by the fame. 2d. 
 
 9 Views of Verlailles, from 3d. to O'd. each. 
 An old Ruin. 
 
 () Country plcafuring and amufements, by le Pautre. 2d. each. 
 4 Dutch country merriments, by Teniers. 2d. each. 
 
 
 
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 2 Cattle-pieces, Camels, &c. after M. Rol'a. 2d. each. 
 
 2 Landskips with figures, by Perelle. 4d. each. 
 
 5 Cattle-pieces, by Berghem. 4d. each. 
 
 3 Landskips with figures and cattle, by Paul van Somer. 3d. each. 
 7 Landskips with figures bathing, etched by Count Caylus. Id. each 
 
 6 Pieces of birds, id. halfpenny each. 
 6 Baskets of fruit and flowers. Id. halfpenny each. 
 
 A Landskip, FlemilL. 
 
 The folloiving are plates which have been engraved at Glasgow. 
 Among thejirst things were copied as follows ; 
 1ft. By Robert Paul. 
 A view, with a funeral monument. 
 A View near Chelfea. 
 A Boar-hunting, after Silveller. 
 Ruins, after le Clerc. 
 A Landskip with ruins. 
 A monaftery curioufly fituated upon a rock in the water, from 
 
 le Clerk 
 A fmall Deer-hunting, with a view of a palace, from Silvefter. 
 A boy holding up a basket of fruit, reprefenting the Fertility 
 
 of the Earth, after Diepenbeck. 
 
 2d. By James Maxwell. 
 Ovidius Nafo, from Bellori. 
 
 Hippocrates, after Sandrart. ^ 
 
 Sophocles, after the fame. . 
 A head of Jofeph, after Jacomo Frey's print of Jofeph and 
 
 Potiphar's wife, from Carlo Morat. 
 The lame man's head, etched after Raphael. 
 A Mufe, from the Mufeum Florentinum. 
 Apollo, a ftatue. M. F. 
 
 3d. By John Lawson. 
 A head of the Virgin, from Raphael. 
 A head of Horace, from Pine, after the antique. 
 A head of Fenelon, Archbilhop of Cambray, from a fmall print. 
 A head of Germanicus, a gem. M. F. 
 Virgo Vid;rix. 
 
 The Amazon Penthefilea flain by Achilles. M. F. 
 Diomedes and Glaucus exchanging Ihields. M. F. 
 Diana, a ftatue. M. F. 
 
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 tus, Pompey, Julius Caefar, M. Antony, M. Varo, Brutus 
 the Younger, Odlavius afterwards Augustus. 3d. each. 
 
 Jupiter's head, a gem. M. F. 
 
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 Penthelilea dying, fuflained by Achilles. M. F. 
 
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 Jupiter, a ftatue. M. F. 
 
 Hercules and lole, a gem. M. F. 
 5th. By William Jameson. 
 
 A head out of Jacomo Frey's print of a Holy Family by 
 Carlo Morat. 
 
 A head of St. John. 
 
 A head of Socrates, very Imall. 
 
 A head of-Aefculapius, a gem. M. F. 
 
 A head of Medufa, a gem. M. F. 
 
 A head of Hercules, when young, a gem. M. F. 
 
 Hercules Victor, a gem. M. F. 
 
 Roma, with a Cornucopia, a gem. M. F. 
 
 Another Roma, a gem. M. F. 
 
 A head of Ulyffes, a gem. M. F. 
 
 Anacreon. 
 
 Alexander the Great. 
 
 Socrates. 
 
 Aventinus fon of Hercules. 
 
 Antinous. 
 
 Head of Virgil. 
 
 Head of Horace. 
 
 A head of an Amazon. iM. F. 
 
 A trumpeter. M. F. 
 
 Li via. 
 
 0(flavia. 
 
 Victory. M. F. 
 
 A Itatue cf Endymion. M. F. 
 
 Views taken by Rodeut Paul. 
 
 Prolpedl of the entry to the Black-fryars Church at Claigow. 
 
 View of the middle-walk in the College-garden. 
 
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 PRINTS. 
 
 View from the South of the Cathedral Church at Glafgovv. 
 View of St. Andrew's Church, which was lately built at Glaf- 
 
 gow, from the battlements of the Town-houfe 
 View of the Cathedral Church at Glafgow from the Weft, larger 
 View of the fame from the North, larger. 
 View of the fame from the South-eaft. 
 View of the Banks of Clyde from York-hill. 
 View of the Bridge from the Old Wind-mill. 
 View of Glafgow from Anderfton. 
 
 Will soon be ready. 
 The Farnefe Gallery by Annibal Cai'racci, without the ornaments. 
 
 It is likewise proposed to print, in a small form, adorned tvilk 
 the elegant Plates of Sebastian Le Clcrc, the following 
 Italian Poets. 
 
 La Gierufalemme Liberata di Torquato Taflb, with 20 plates, 
 
 befides the frontifpiece and the author.'s head. 
 L'Aminta di Taflb, with 6 plates, befides a frontifpiece and 
 
 his head. 
 II Paftor Fido di Guarini, with 6 plates, befides a frontifpiece. 
 La Filli di Scii'o, with 6 plates, befides a frontifpiece. 
 L'Adone dell Marino, with 19 plates, befides a frontifpiece. 
 
 STATUES in Plaister of Paris, moulded at Glafgow. 
 
 Those marked with a * were modelled there. 
 
 SIZES. PRICES. PRICES. 
 
 1. s. d. 1. s. d. 
 The Gladiator Borghefe, fame fize with the fa- 
 mous Antique. The real length of the figure 
 is 6 feet 6 inches, but the height from the 
 ground is only 5 feet 6 inches. 
 The fame in lead. 
 2 feet 7 inches long and 10 A Cupid lying covering himfelf with a piece of 
 
 drapery, by Flamingo ; And its companion, 
 by the fame. 15s. each. 
 The above two when varniflied. 20s. each. 
 They are proper for putting over architraves 
 or cornices on door-heads. 
 
 inches in height. 
 
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 SIZES. 
 
 2 feet 4 l.half inches high. 
 
 2 feet i inches. 
 
 2 feet 4 l-half inches. 
 
 2 feet 2 inches. 
 
 2 feet. 
 
 1 foot 10 l-half inches. 
 
 1 foot 9 l-half inches. 
 
 1 foot 8 l-half inches. 
 1 foot 8 l-half inches. 
 1 foot 8 incheF. 
 1 foot 9 l-half inclii's. 
 1 foot 9 inches. 
 I foot 9 inches. 
 
 1 foot 2 inches. 
 1 foot 2 inches. 
 1 foot 2 inches. 
 
 1 foot 8 inches. 
 1 foot 9 inches. 
 1 foot 8 inches. 
 13 l.half inches. 
 13 l-half inches. 
 
 13 l-half inches. 
 13 l-half inches. 
 15 inches. 
 15 inches. 
 
 2 feet 7 inches. 
 
 2 feet 3 3-4th inches. 
 
 2 feet 3 1-haIf inches. 
 
 2 feet 2 3-4th inch< s. 
 
 2 feet 2 l-half inches. 
 
 2 feet 1 inch. 
 
 2 feet 1 inch. 
 
 1 foot 11 inches. 
 
 1 foot 11 l-half inches. 
 
 BUSTS. 
 
 SMALLER STATUES. 
 
 Apollo. 
 
 The Dancing Faun. 
 
 * The Gladiator Borghefe. 
 
 Leda and the Swan. 
 
 Venus of Medici. 
 
 Amphitrite. 
 
 Flora. 
 
 Antinous. 
 
 A young Faun piping. 
 
 Antaeus. 
 
 An anatomical figure. 
 
 Hercules and Antaeus wreftling. 
 
 The fame in a different pofture. 
 
 Mercury flying. 
 
 Mercury leaning. 
 
 Apollo. 
 
 Venus. 
 
 MODERN STATUES. 
 
 Shakefpear, with a monument. 
 Milton, with a monument. 
 Another Milton. 
 Shakefpear, with a monument. 
 Milton, with a monument. 
 Pope, with a monument. 
 Gay, with a monument. 
 Autumn or Bacchus. 
 Winter or a Sketing Boy. 
 
 BUSTS, as large as life, from the Anticjue 
 
 Antoninus. 
 
 Jupiter. 
 
 Homer. 
 
 Sylla. 
 
 Caracal! a. 
 
 Veftal Virgin. 
 
 Fauftina. 
 
 Cicero. 
 
 Seneca. • 
 
 PRICES. 
 
 PRICES. 
 
 Unvarniilied. 
 
 Varnifhed. 
 
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 SIZES. 
 
 1 foot 10 I-half inches. 
 1 foot 11 1-hal finches. 
 1 foot 6 1-half inches. 
 
 1 foot 5 inches. 
 
 1 foot 6 l-half inches. 
 
 1 foot 6 inches. 
 
 1 foot 5 1-half inches. 
 
 1 foot 5 inches. 
 
 1 foot 6 I.half inches. 
 1 foot 5 inches." 
 
 1 foot 8 inches. 
 
 1 foot 4 1-half inches. 
 
 1 foot 4 1-half inches. 
 
 1 foot 11 l-half inches. 
 1 foots 1-half inches- 
 1 foot 5 inches. 
 1 foot 5 inches. 
 
 1 foot 6 1-half inches. 
 1 foot 5 1-half inches. 
 
 1 foot 5 1-half inches. 
 1 foot 5 inches. 
 1 foot 5 inches. 
 1 foot 6 inches. 
 1 foot 4 1-half inches. 
 
 BUSTS. 
 
 Nero, young. 
 
 Annius Verus. 
 
 M. Aurelius Antoninus, young. 
 
 Less than Life. 
 
 A Madonna. 
 Apollo of Belvidere. 
 Aefculapiiis. 
 
 * Homer. 
 Plato. 
 Virgil. 
 Cicero. 
 
 * M. Aurelius Antoninus. 
 
 * Veftal Virgin. 
 
 * Fauftina. 
 
 MODERN BUSTS. 
 
 * King of Pruffia. 
 
 * The Prince of Wales. 
 
 * Raphael. 
 
 * Annibal Caracci. 
 
 * Sir Walter Rawleigh. 
 
 * Shakelpear. 
 
 * Milton. 
 Dry den. 
 Newton. 
 Prior. 
 Pope. 
 
 PRICES. 
 
 PRICES. 
 
 Unvarn 
 
 ilhed. 
 
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 13 1-half inches. 
 1 foot. 
 
 1 foot 1 inch. 
 12 1-haIf inches. 
 6 1-half in. by 6 l-half. 
 12 1-haIf inches by 15. 
 
 SMALL BUSTS. 
 
 Livy. 
 
 * A Madonna. 
 
 * The Angel Gabriel. 
 A head of Cupid, Avith a pedeflal, moulded on an 
 
 original modelling of F'iaraingo. 
 
 A head of Pan, 1 Jor pulling into the cornices of 
 A head of Si\enus,y chimneiz-jneces, or door-heads. 
 A Boy fitting, after Fiamingo. 
 
 * A Boy fitting, modelled after the former. 
 
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 11 Uhalf inches. 
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 11 inches. 
 1 foot. 
 
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 II inches. 
 10 inches. 
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 inches. 
 
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 8 inches. 
 8 inches. 
 
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 BUSTS. 
 
 Venus. 
 
 Flora. 
 
 Apollo. 
 
 Leda. 
 
 Cicero. 
 
 Virgil. 
 
 Shakefpear. 
 
 Milton. 
 
 * Kinff of Pruflia. 
 
 Vandyke. 
 
 Antoninus. 
 
 Fauftina. 
 
 Cicero. 
 
 Demofthenes. 
 
 A Satyr. 
 
 Cleopatra. 
 
 Lucretia. 
 
 PRICES. 
 
 PRICES. 
 
 Unvarni 
 
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 6 inches by 8. 
 6 inches by 8. 
 6 inches by 8. 
 5 inches by 9. 
 
 URNS AND ORNAMENTED BRACKETS. 
 
 Large Urns. 5 
 
 Small Urns. 1 
 
 A Bracket for the large ftatues of Shakefpear or 
 
 Milton. 4 
 
 A bracket for any of the middle-fized bufts or 
 
 ftatues. 7 6 
 
 2 Other Brackets for the fame (companions) 
 
 both at 
 A Bracket for the fmalleft ftatues. 
 A Bracket for the fmall bufts. 
 
 B A S R E L I E V O's 
 
 Dr. Francis Hutchefon. 
 
 Ceres. 
 
 A Bacclianal. 
 
 Judith with Holophernes' head. 
 
 A flee})ing Venus. 
 
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 Wa.K. 
 
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 SIZES. B U S T S cut in Stone. prices. 
 
 1. s. d. 
 
 1 foot U inches. Cicei'O. 5 
 
 1 foot 11 1-haif inches. Seneca. 4 
 
 1 loot 9 l-lth inches. Livv. 3 
 
 N. B. Any perfon may have a ftatue or bull done in Paris-plaifter, 
 after a pidlure, drawing, or print. 
 
 As the copies of the Congrefs at Somerfet-houfe and Daniel in the 
 Den of Lions were done at Hamilton, at a great expence, if any per- 
 fon chufes other copies, they will be done at a cheaper rate. The 
 copies in general are valued according to the hands who do them, 
 io that a copy of the fame pi(5ture will be fold higher or lower accord- 
 ing as it is done.
 
 ORIGINAL PAPERS.
 
 ORIGINAL PAPERS. 
 
 No. I. 
 
 Propofals for erecting a bookfellers fliup and a printing prels within the Univerfity of 
 
 Glafgow, [1713]. 
 
 Its needlefs to fhew how neceflary and advantagious a well furnilh'd lliop with books, 
 paper, pens, ink, &c. or a printing prefs within the Univerfity will be, or to obferve that 
 no Learned Society has ever flourifli'd to any pitch without thofe helps. The common 
 practice of all famous Seminarys of Learning makes this matter of fa6t evident, and our 
 own experience here fufficiently confirms whatever can be s'^" in its favours, every day 
 teaches us what difficulty there is to get the books that are abfolutely neceflary for the 
 fcholars of all forts, and how much we are impof'd upon when we gett y"- And as to a 
 printing prefs, the fingle confideration of our being obliged to go to Ed''' in order to gett 
 one fheet right printed makes out the abfolut neceflTity of one. 
 
 In order to have the Univerfity well accommodated with books, and a printing prefs, 
 It is propofed that before the next fefllons of the College there fliall be a well furnilh'd 
 fliop erected, with books of all forts, paper, paper-books, pens, ink, ink-horns, fealing-wax, 
 and all other things fold either in a bookfellers or ftationers fliop, as alfo that fometirae 
 within four years after whillunday next there lliall be a printing prefs erected, with necef- 
 farv funts and other materials for printing Heb : Greek, and Latin, upon the conditions 
 and manner after fpecified, viz. 
 
 1. That the Undertaker fliall be immediately declared Univerfity bookfeller and printer, 
 and that all the priviledges, immunitys, and advantages which the Univerfity can bellow 
 on a bookfeller or printer Ihall be afligned to the s**' undertaker and his aflegneys what- 
 fomever, and that for 40 years. 
 
 2ly. That a convenient fliop and warehoufe within the College be allowed gratis to the 
 s''- undertaker, and that the s""- fliop fliall be floord with dales and flielves, tables, a brace 
 and chimney, and Large chace window putt in it at the expeiice of the Univerfity. 
 
 Sly. That when the printing prefs fliall be ereded the Univerfity furnifli a convenient 
 printing houfe, and for laying up books printed and drying the paper, &c. 
 
 4ly. [deleted]. 
 
 5. That the Undertaker be obliged either to ereci the prefs within the time above men- 
 tioned, or forfeit his priviledges of bookfeller and printer.
 
 120 
 
 Since the eai'lier part of this volume was printed, the writer has been favoured by 
 
 William Motherwell, Esq. with the following extracts from the Records of the Town 
 Council : — 
 
 20 April IGll. Item to George Anderfouneprenter his jeirspenfioune Ixvj.'"'- xiij.'- iiij.''- 
 
 12 Nov. 1642. Item to George Anderfone prenter Ixvij.'"''- xiij.''- iiij.*"- 
 
 " " 1643. Item to Georg Anderfone prenter Ixvij.'"'- xiij.'- iiij.**' 
 
 17Feby. 1645. Item to Georg Anderfone Ix^'ij* xiij.^' iiij. 
 
 7 March 1646. Item to George Anderfoune printer ^xvij. xiij. iiij.''' 
 
 29 May 1647. Item to George Anderfoune printer of feall l^vij. xiij.^- iiij.''" 
 
 " " " Item to George Auderfoun printer for fervice vj.'- xiij.^* iiij.**' 
 
 11 March 1648. Item to George A nderfoun prenter xxxiij. vj.^' iiij.''" 
 
 'I'he entries in the year 1647 seem to indicate that, besides his pension, Anderson was 
 paid for his "fervice" by the town. 
 
 No. II. 
 
 Agreement Between the Colledge of Glafgow and Donald Govane yor, 1715. 
 
 Att the Colledge of Glafgow the Tenth day of January J™* vij"" and ffifteen years It is 
 agreed and finally ended Between the perfons parties underwryten They are to fay Mr. 
 John Stirling Principal of the Univerfitie of Glafgow, Mr. John Simpfon profeflbr of 
 Theologie y'' Mr. William Forbes profeffor of Law, Mr. John Johnlloun profeflbr of 
 phyfick, Mrs. Gerlhom Carmlchael and John Loudoun profellbrs of philofophie, Mr. Alex- 
 ander Dunlop profelfor of Greek, Mr Andrew Rofs, profeflbr of Humanitie, Mr. Charles 
 Morthlan[d] profeflbr of the orientall Languages, jMr. Robert Simpfon profelfor of Matthe- 
 maticks, and Mr. Robert Dick profelfor of philofophie y'" with the fpeciall advice and con- 
 ient of Sir .lohn Maxwell of Netherpollok Knight and Barronett one of the Senators of 
 the Colledge of .lullice Rec^lor, And of Mr. John Hamiltoun one of the Miniflers of the 
 Gofpell in Glafgow Dean of ffaciiltie of the faid Univerfitie on the one part And Donald 
 Govan yoiniger merchant in Glalgow and printer on the other part In matiner following 
 Thats to lay fforafmuchas The laid Univerfltie Hath Nominated Conflitnted and Ap- 
 poynted And hereby Nominatts ('onliituts and Appovnts tiie faid Donald Govane Printer 
 to the faid Univerfitie And that for all the years and fpace of i'even years And sua long 
 thereafter as the faid Univerfitie iliall pleafe provyding ahvayes he aflign not the s' privi-
 
 121 
 
 ledge of printer to the Univerfitle to any without Confent of the ffacultie And that 
 no book bear to be printed by him or his Deput as printer to the laid Univerfitie 
 Unlefs he be allowed by the faid ffacultie To defign himfelf fo In the Title page of the 
 books And the faid Univerfitie obleidge them and y'- fncce''- in offices To ffurnilh for the 
 ufe of the faid Donald Tuo Chambers within the faid CoUedge To witt Number Twenty 
 four and Thirtie, with a Sellar for Coalls, and a Garrett in the Steeple for Drying his 
 paper or roumes alfe convenient for the faid ufe ffor the which caufes The faid Donald 
 Govan Binds and obleidges himfelf To furnilli and keep up for the faid fpace of Seven 
 years and Longer during the continuance of his priviledge Tuo preffes for printing with 
 all neceffary Materialls for printing Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Chaldee Att leaft sua 
 many of Hebrew and Chaldee as are needfull to Print a Small Grammar And Binds and 
 obleidges him to keep fufficient and IkillfuU Correctors and Workmen to ferve in the 
 printing houfe And to preferr every member of the Univerfitie to the ufe att leaft of one 
 prefs to any other whatfoever And to ferve them att the Common rate according to the 
 feveral kynds of print And fliall have to ferve that one prefs Three Setters of Letter att 
 leaft if required And keep fufficient fonts of Englilh, pica, and Small pica Letters as will 
 sett Tuo Sheets of Print in Englifli or Latin And farder Binds and obleidges him to 
 procure a Coppy of each book to the Liberary of the s'^ Univerfitie befor he agree to print 
 it And to furnilli a Coppy of all fuch books he is to print for himfelf for the ufe forfaid 
 And alfo to Print Programs and other Advertifements for the ufe of the Univerfitie to 
 any Member y'of Gratis, They alwayes furnilbing him Paper for fuch programs or Adver- 
 tifements And Binds and obleidges him to fuUfill and perform his part of the haill premifes 
 In manner above wryten Under the pain of One Thoufand merkes Scotts money of penalty 
 in cafe of failzea attour performance Confenting thir prefents be infert and reg"' In the books 
 of Counfell and Sefiion or any oy" competent that Le" and exce"' of Horning on fix Dayes 
 and Oy"- needfull may pafs hereon In form as effeirs And yrto Conftituts prors 
 
 In witnefs q?of thir pn" writtin be Hugh Crawfurd wryr in Glafgow Are Sub"- att 
 Glafgow Day year and place forfaid Befor thefe wittneflTes Thomas young and David 
 Holms Servitors to the faid Univerfitie wittnefi^es also to the Sub"'"- of the INIarginall 
 Nott Date forf** 
 
 Gers: Carmichaell, P.P. 
 Rob: Simson IMath. P. 
 Rob: Dick P.P. 
 
 Thomas Young witnefs. 
 David Holms wittnefs. 
 
 Jo: Stirling Principal. 
 
 J. Simson SS. T. P. 
 
 Wm. Forbes Prof, of Law. 
 
 Jo: JoHNSToUNE Med: Profefs. 
 
 Al: Dunlop G. L. p. 
 
 And : Rosse Hum. Profefs. 
 
 ChA : MORTHLAND LL. O. P. 
 
 Donald Govane Jun'
 
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 No. III. 
 THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW 
 
 The following information is extracted from a " Memorial concerning the State of the 
 Univerfity of Glafgow as it was y* 18th of September 1701 when Mr. Stirling was 
 admitted Principal and as it is now in this prefent year 1717." 
 
 "* 
 
 As to the method of teaching It had been too ordinary to delay beginning to teach the 
 fyfteni of the feveral Sciences that are taught in the philofophy claffes till December or 
 Jjinuary By which means the faid fjilems could not be perfected in that year to y" great 
 prt'judice of the Undents, ffor remedy q'of It was ordained October 1712 that the fyftem 
 of the feveral Sciences to be taught every year be begun the firfl of November and 
 farther for the better Improvement of the several years wherein philofcphy is taught It 
 was then appointed that the profeffor who teaches the firfl year not only finifli his courle 
 of Logick but likewife that of Ontology and that in the Batchelour year the profeffor 
 lor that year expede his courfe of pneumaticks and Moral philofophy against the end of 
 that year that fo in the third and lalt year for philofophy a complete Syftem of Natural 
 philofophy may be explained and finilhed. 
 
 Till the beginning of the year 1710 there had for many years been no publick prelec- 
 tions in this Univerfity excepting fome difcourfes by Doclor ^Robert] S'" clare and Mr. 
 .Jamelbn. But att that time it was Refolved that the principal and feveral oyr profeffors 
 in their feveral ft'aculties Uiould have publick preleclions by turns every week after the 
 publick Examinations were over which for the moft part has been obfervd, befides Avhich 
 its ufual for the profeffors of Law, Medicine and Oriental Languages to have publick 
 leffons once a week by turns from the beginning of November till y° firfl day of jNIay." 
 
 An account of the manner in which several of the Classes were conducted was drawn up 
 by the Professors apparently about the same period. The papers are now printed from 
 the originals preserved among the archives of the University. 
 
 Thi' Methode of teaching divinity at prefent in the Univerfitie at Glafgow. 
 
 1. Ther is ane entin; fyftenie of divinity explained to the Undents each feffion of the 
 College, which explication is begun ul'ually the 2d or 3d dyet after the beginning of the 
 fefiion on the 10th day of Ocf- and is continued everie tuefday, wednefday and thurfday 
 till the fyfleme be finilhed which ufles to be about the middle of June. The compend 
 explained is Johan: Marlij Theol: Comp: Medulla witli which the beginners are derire<l 
 
 » VVodrow Mas. Advocates' Library. Jac. VI. 27.
 
 123 
 
 to read Pi(5tets didactick compend fome parts of which are alfo explained to them in the 
 hall And our Confeffion of faith is collated with Marie's compend as they go along and the 
 differences with their reafons explained and the preference of the propofitions in our 
 Confeffion proved from Scripture and reafon by wliich means the principal chapters of our 
 confeffion are explained and its doctrine vindicated and the ftudents are taught to obferve 
 in what points the ordinarie fyflemes of divinity differ from it and why; and the ftudents 
 are alfo examined on what has been explained. 
 
 Sly Everie munday is appointed for the ftudents delivering their Lectures, homilies and 
 preflDyterial exercifes which are cenfured by the ftudents after their deliverie. 
 
 Sly Everie friday is appointed for the deliverie of ane exegefis by fome ftudent and 
 publick difputes. 
 
 4ly Once in a week or two as found convenient Tlier is held a meeting for polemick 
 conference In order to which fevei'al fyftems of divinity are divided among the ftudents 
 to be read and the books of the popilli, focinian and arminian writers &c. are appointed to 
 be read by fome of the elder ftudents judged fitteft for that purpofe by the profeffor 
 who are to give account of their author's opinions with their principles and chief arguments 
 and wherein contrair to the truth are confuted by the pi'ofeffiu* and their objo6lions 
 anfwered and the truth in oppofition to them eftablillied and the ftudents are deiired to 
 propofe their doubts and have them anfwered. 
 
 51y Ther being no publick meeting on Saturday the ftudents are appointed to meet 
 privately for prayer and conference either in one, two or more focieties according to their 
 number And as a great part of their work are to explain fome difficult paflage of Scripture 
 propofed in a former meeting by one of their focietie appointed fo to do and required to 
 prefent in writing the explication of it from the beft commentators he can find which when 
 drawn up in form according to the mind of the Societie is delivered to the profeflbr to be 
 revized by him and correAed if needfull and then at a convenient time is read publickly 
 and appointed to be i*ecorded in a book. For the better management of which work ther 
 is a portion of Scripture allotted to each Society the difficult paflages of which they are to 
 explain as they ly in order. 
 
 The method that I obferve in teaching the Hebrew Chaldee and Syi'iack Languages is 
 as follows. 
 
 I begin with the Hebrew, and for the better teaching of it, I explain to my Scholars; 
 Relands Compend of Altingius's Fundamentum Puncftationis, and examiu them particularly 
 on every part of it and ufually finifh that Grammar in lefs than the fpace of a month. 
 Then I begin the grammar again, and at the fame time prefcribe a fmall portion of the 
 eafieft ofthe Hiftorical part of the Bible, to be read, interpreted, and analyf'd, and that 
 it may be the eafier done I for fome leffi>ns at the beginning, read, interpret and analyze 
 the text in their hearing, at the fame time fliewing them how to apply the several rules of 
 the Grammar in these exercifes, and of every leftbn I exa(5l a particular account from my 
 Scholars. I continue this method for a month longer by w*"^ time the ftudents come to be 
 
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 pretty well founded in the Elements of y° Hebi'ew tongue, after which I proceed to the 
 pfalter, of which I prefcribe pretty large portions, at every leffon requiring account of the 
 analyfis, as far as the time will allow, and of the pfalter, I ufually read 30 or 40 pfalins 
 the firft year. 
 
 The beginning of the fecond year I caufe the fame fludents revife the Grammar, which 
 takes not up ten days, as alfo read fome parts of the prophets, and book of Job. which 
 they continue to do, while I diclat and explain to y" a iliort compend of a Chaldee Gram- 
 mar, and before this be done it is ufually the midle of January, when 1 begin y" to the 
 analyfis of the Chaldee text, which they continue to do, till all containd in the bible be 
 finilhed. but when they begin to the analyfis of the Chaldee text, I begin them likewife 
 to the 8yriack grammar which is fiiiiihed as foon as the Chaldee, after which till the feflions 
 end they read y° Syriack text and ordinai'ly expone 8 or ten chapters that year. And 
 with this proficiency all the fcholars I have hitherto had excepting one who read a little 
 Arabick have fatifyd y'"felves. as for what relates to other parts of Oriental Learning 
 I have hitherto made litle progrefs in teaching of it. 
 
 Once in the fortnight I have a publick Leffon upon points abfolutly neceffary to be 
 known by any that defign to improve in that Learning, if conveniency of others permitt 
 I defign to be more frequent for the future. 
 
 As for the Students of philofophy, the dyets being fo fhort and the meetings fo few in a 
 year, all I can gett done with them is to Initial y" in the Heb: Grammar, and read two or 
 three pfalnis in a year with y""* 
 
 Ch: Morthland. 
 
 Concerning my methode of teaching philofophy.* 
 
 As for my own way of teaching, it is the fame old way y' I was taught niyfelf, and has 
 bin long in ufe in this College; by dited notes, and difputs in all the parts of philofophy; 
 tho' in the logick year, I began always the logicks by teaching thofe of Burgerfdick for 
 two months or fo ; and fince the fixing of the bajan Claffe I ufed to take up much time in 
 the beginning of the femie year by ciiufing thofe y' were come up to revife y' Greek, y' I 
 might both bring it to y' remembrance and know the ability of every one of y™ y' way : 
 neither could I well begin y"" w' the logicks till they were tolerably well gathered: I have 
 caufed y"" to difput q" they were ready for it fometimes three days in the week, and 
 fometimes more : alfo to get y' leffons by heart, and be able to give an account of y"'' q** 
 was chiefly done in the morning; fome time being allowed for difput and fome time 
 for writing, q~ther in the morning or forenoon as occafion offerd. in tlie afternoon, 
 efppcially in the end of the year, I have bin in ufe to teach y" fomething of arithmetick 
 and geometry in the way of dictats : I have alfo caufed y"" to have fometimes exegefes in 
 the Clalfe, but not every year, nor yet always in every courfe, finding y' performances 
 
 » The first part of tliis paper contains Remarks on proposed Improvements in conducting the Philosopliy 
 Classes, which arc not inserted.
 
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 but very weak fometimes : but the difputs T never fufFer'd to be negle(5led, q""* feemed to 
 be the equivalent, this is the fubftance, and I cannot Avell enlarge, onely my opinion is y' 
 difputs and di(5lats muit be kept up as ulually till we lee farder about us : reformations 
 cannot be fudden in thefe cafes, but mull go on by flow degrees, till we can fay yl the 
 remedie is at leaft better y" the difeafe if any be. 
 
 Jo: Law. 
 
 Method of teaching the Bajan Claffe. 
 
 I order what Undents come the firft day, to bring with them, fome Latin Author, 
 againfl the next, fuch as Saluft, Quintus Curtius, Cornelius Nepos, or what other profe 
 book I think moll convenient, and which I can finilh in the time I allott for it. 
 
 I defire them at the fame time to prepare, in a few dayes, ufually againll the beginning 
 or middle of the Week after, Verneys Greek Grammar, which is the one I think beft. 
 I am oblidged to goe through fome Latin book, both that I may give the Students time 
 to gather, and likewife becaufe I cannot give them fo great lelFons in the Grammar, at 
 firfl, as will take up the whole Clafle time in examining, nor fo many of them in a day, 
 as we have meetings, without hurrying, and confufing them, in a lludy perfectly new to 
 them When tiey have all got their Grammars, I give them a Leffon in it every day, 
 except munday, which leflbn I examine betwixt feven and eight ; fpending the reft of the 
 day in turning their Latin author to Englifli, or elfe in having their Latin or Englilh 
 Verfions, which I give them, when I think proper, examined. 
 
 When they have learned in the Grammar the Length of the Verbs, which is ufually 
 about the middle of November, I begin it again, and give them a Leffon betwixt Eleven 
 and Twelve, Explaining it more fully, and teaching them fome things, which I make them 
 paffe the firft time; but I ftill Continue the JMornings Leffon; fo that after this, all the 
 time that is fpent in Latin, is betwixt Eight and Nine, and in the afternoon. 
 
 About the beginning of December, or toward the time of the Publick Examinations, 
 when they have got the length of the Verbs in Mi, I caufe them get the Greek Teftament, 
 in which I give them a Leffon every day betwixt eight and nine. If there be any of the 
 Latin book unexamined, I take it either in the afternoons, or, (in time of the Examina- 
 tion) att what time I can fpare in the other Dyets, becaufe I always endeavour to have it 
 ended againft the beginning of January. About which time, having ended the Verbs in M/, 
 they get fome eafy profe Greek book, fuch as Cebes' Table, ^fops fFables, Lucian's 
 Dialogues or his Timon, which they learn five times a week betwixt Eight and Nine, 
 taking the Leffon they had at that hoiir in the Teftament, betwixt Eleven and Twelve, 
 and That in the Grammar the afternoon, which laft Leffon I continue all the year, at leaft 
 till they have gone through the Grammar wholly in the Morning Leffon. 
 
 When they come to the fyntax, which may be about the middle of ff^ebruary, I give 
 them fome harder book fuch as Xenophon's Cyropaedia, Herodian, Ifocrates, Ariftophanes 
 though a Poet, in which they have their morning leffon, and if there remain any of the 
 former book untaught, I teach it in the forenoon, in which cafe, I give no more Leftbns
 
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 in the Tellament, except a (hort one, on Mondays before nine ; but if the other book 
 before mentioned be Ended, I then continue the forenoons Leflbn in the Teftament, till they 
 begin a Poet. 
 
 When the fyntax is ended, I begin immediately to teach the Dialects, before I teach 
 what is betwixt, that I may the fooner fit them for reading the Poets, which when they 
 have gone through, I give them foine Poet, ufually Homers Iliad, which they give ane 
 account of in the morning, turning the lall mentioned Book to the forenoon. This I 
 continue all year, only now and then, after they have learned the Syntax, I give them fome 
 Latin fentences to Tranflate to Greek, and fometimes fome Greek Paffages, which I know 
 they have not a verlion of, to render in Latin. 
 
 When they have gone through the whole Grammar in the Morning's leflbn, I either 
 take what remains of it in the Afternoons Leflbn, or elfe I teach Homer all the Morning. 
 If I doe the firft, then in the afternoon I either goe through Some part of the Grammar, 
 for the third time, if I think it neceflkry, or elfe I teach them in the afternoon the fame 
 book they have in the forenoon. 
 
 Al: Dcnlop. 
 
 The " Statute and Act regulating the Univerfity of Glafgow," mentioned at page 11 of 
 this work, was drawn up by the Committee of Visitation, and is dated 19th September, 
 1727. The extracts here printed, as confirming the statements there made, are taken from 
 a copy preserved in the General Register House. 
 
 " And the Commiilion having recommended to the Maflers of the faids three philofophy 
 Clafles to mjike their eleClion which of the ClalTes they were feverally to take And they 
 having agreed among themfelves And Mr. Gerlbam Carmichael having made choife of the 
 Ethick Clafs, Mr. John Loudoun of the Logick Clafs, and the teaching of the Phyfick 
 Clafs falling to Mr. Robert Dick, 
 
 The Commiffioners Statute and Ordain That the faids perfons refpec^ive have in time 
 coming the teaching of the faid feverall Claffes by them chofen And that Mr. Robert Dick 
 teach the Clafs falling to him. And that they remain fo fixed to the faid Claffes, and that 
 all other and fubfequent profelibrs of philofophy coming in to the faid Univerfity be ftill 
 fixed to one Clafs, and the teaching of the foriaid particular parts of philofophy allotted 
 to the Clafs in which he Ihall be fixt. 
 
 That the profeffors of Divinity, Law, Medicine, Orientall Languages, Mathematicks 
 and Hiftory Shall yearly teach the bufinefs of their refpedive profeffions whenever five or 
 more Scholbirs Ihall apply to them, and that they give not under four leffons every week. 
 
 That in cafe the laid number of Five Schollars do not apply to the faid profeffors 
 betwixt the fitting down of the Colledge and the firfl day of December there.ifter, That 
 fuch profellbr lliall after the firfl day of December aforlaid Prelect publicly once every 
 week at fuch hour and upon fuch day of the week as the faculty Ihall appoint. 
 
 That the Profeffors above fpecified ihall either continue their Colleges from the firft 
 day of November to the laft day of May yearly, or if their Claffes be fooner finiflied
 
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 That they fliall weekly thereafter give publick preledions to the laft day of May as in the 
 cafe of Scholars not applying for teaching. 
 
 That the Profelfor of Bottony and Anatomy* teach Bottony yearly from the fifteenth 
 day of May to the firll day of July, if five fchollars offerr. 
 
 And finds and Declares That Dr. Brilbane prefent profeffor of Bottony and Anatomy 
 in the faid Univerfity is obliged to teach Anatomy as well as Bottony, And ordains him 
 to teach Anatomy yearly as the other profefTors abovementioned are appointed to teach 
 the bufinefs of their profeffions, and that he begin to teach fo foon as ten fchollars offerr, 
 and if no fuch number offerr before the firft day of November That thereafter he fljall 
 preledl publickly on Anatomy once every week as other profefTors are to doe in the like 
 cafe untill the fifteenth day of May that he begin to teach Bottany. 
 
 No. IV. 
 DR JAMES MOOR. 
 
 James Moor, professor of Greek in the University of Glasgow, was the son of James 
 Muir, school-master in Glasgow, and considered himself descended from Elizabeth Mure, 
 the queen of Robert II., from whom he had constructed a genealogical table of his 
 ancestors. His father appears to have been a man of considerable learning, and of such 
 unwearied industry, that we are told, " that not thinking himself rich enough to buy 
 Newton's Principia, he copied the whole of it with his own hand." He died while his 
 son was very young, and his widow sold his library, — a circumstance which Dr Moor 
 often regretted. 
 
 After acquiring the usual preliminary branches of education. Moor entered the Uni- 
 versity as a student of Humanity in 1725, and his studies were greatly facilitated by his 
 acquaintance with Mr Andrew Stalker, who has been already noticed in this work (pp.7 — 9), 
 and who kindly allowed him to read in his shop as much as he pleased, " which per- 
 mission," says our authority, " he made much use of." Of his progress while at College 
 we have the most flattering pi-oofs. The Natural Philosophy Class was at this time 
 taught by Mr Robert Dick, (See No. III.), and the Professor, after demonstrating a pro- 
 position to his students, used to desire Moor to go over it a second time, instead of doing 
 it himself. He was particularly fond of the Mathematics, and had from an early period 
 attained to such proficiency in that science, that his degree of Master of Arts, instead of 
 testifying in the usual form that he had made progressus haud spernendos, bore upon it 
 progressus egregios. But while engaged in these pursuits he had neglected the Greek 
 
 * Anatomy and Botany were at this time, and till lately, taught by the same Professor.
 
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 lang-uage, and on resuming it found he had almost entirely forgot it. From this circum- 
 stance, he used to recoiinnend to those who wished to retain their knowledge of the 
 languages, to allot a small portion of each day to them while engaged in other studies. 
 
 It cannot be ascertained at what precise period Moor took his degree, as the Laureation 
 Book has been unfortunately mislaid, but it must have been between this peinod and 1743. 
 After leaving the University he seems to have kept a school in Glasgow, in which he 
 taught several branches of education. While thus employed he read the classics at his 
 leisure hours. 
 
 He was next employed as tutor to the Earls of Errol and Selkirk, in Avhich capacity he 
 travelled abroad. He was afterwards in the family of the Earl of Kilmarnock. When 
 in the last situation he had made a collection of books which he valued highly, but 
 unfortunately while the Earl was from home, the family mansion, along with Moor's 
 library, was burned. At this period he studied much, — principally late in the evening, 
 and prevented himself from becoming drowsy by drinking strong tea. His health was 
 thus considerably impaired, and he " had at times some severe fevers." As a tutor he 
 was diligent and attentive to his pupils. The son of the Earl of Kilmarnock especially 
 made such proficiency, that he taught him Greek without his father's knowledge, until he 
 read before him by his tutor's desire an ode of Anaci*eon, *' to the great surprize and joy 
 of the earl." He also mentions in the Dedication of his Essays, that the Earl of Errol 
 had, "at a very early time of life, made, in that language, a very uncommon progress." 
 
 On the 11th November, 1742, Mr Moor was appointed Librarian to the University, 
 in the place of Mr Dunlop (probably the subsequent Professor of Oriental Languages), 
 and in May, 1743, the appointment was continued by the Town Council for four years 
 " from the end of the year for which he was chosen by the College." It may be necessary 
 to mention, that at this time the right of presentation to this office was vested alternately 
 in the Magistrates and Town Council and in the College, and that each presentation was 
 considered as lasting for four years. 
 
 He had remained in this situation for about three years, when Mr Alexander Dunlop, 
 who had been Professor of Greek for more than forty years, and whose sight was now 
 considerably decayed, resigned his chair upon condition that his salary should be continued 
 during his life, and that he should still possess the house in which he had lived, " under 
 the same regulations and conditions as the other Masters possess their houses."* Moor 
 
 • .Mr Dunlop did not survive his resignation long. His death is thus noticed in the Glasgow Journal : — 
 " April 27, 1747. On Friday last died, universally lamented, Mr. Alex. Uunlop, late Professor of Greek in 
 the l.'iiiversUy of Gliisgow, whith dffire he held upwards of 40 years with gi ntral applause. His thorough 
 knowledge and fine taste in that language, with his masterly and engaging method of teaching it, raised the 
 study thereof, which had been long neglected, unto general esteem and reputation. His true piety, solid 
 judgment, fnd eheirfulness of temper, which continued to the last, though laboui ing lor some time under a 
 disease he knew to be mortal, added to the many other excellent qualifications he was possessed of, made him 
 .-» most useful member of society, and an ornament to his profession." I'rofessor Dunlop was the son of 
 Principal Dunlop of dlapgow, and brother to the celebrated William Dunlop, Professor of Divinity in the 
 University of lidinburgh.
 
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 AA^as elected his successor on the 9th of July following, and had a Critical Explication 
 of the tenth chapter of Longinus assigned to him as a Trial Discourse. For this situa- 
 tion, his son mentions that Moor paid Dunlop £600, which was advanced by the Earl 
 of Selkirk. 
 
 The Rebellion had been terminated but a few months before by the battle of CuUoden, 
 and although its effects, so far as concerned Moor's professional labours, might be con- 
 sidered as at an end, he was now called upon to mourn the loss of his generous patron, the 
 Earl of Kilmarnock. That unfortunate nobleman, it will be recollected, had taken an 
 active part on the side of the Chevalier, and for this offence he was condemned and executed- 
 At the request of his lordship's relations, Moor Avent to London to solicit the ministers 
 on his behalf. He had not imbibed the political sentiments of his patron, and his marked 
 attachment to the reigning family, perhaps, rendered it possible that his intercession might 
 be the means of procuring his pardon. In this, however, he was unsuccessful. 
 
 In 1747 Mr Moor ceased to be librarian, his term of four years having expired, and 
 from that time he Avas AvhoUy occupied in classical pursuits. Of his success Ave have the 
 best proofs in the works on Greek literature which he produced. 
 
 We have already noticed (p. 30) the splendid folio edition of Homer, which was edited 
 by professors Moor and Muirhead at the request of the University ; and his son mentions 
 that " he inspected an edition of Herodotus, and, it is thought, some more of the classics 
 of Foulis." His Greek Grammar, which he left incomplete, has long been considered as a 
 standard Avork ; " and in it," says Dr Irving, " we meet Avith instances of a beautiful 
 analysis." He Avas one of the twelve constituent members of the Literary Society of 
 GlasgOAv, and the only other printed works which bear his name are the results of his 
 connection with that Society, — of these, and his other Essays read to that Institution, a 
 list is given at the end of this article. His partiality to books, — of Avhich he had formed 
 a large collection, has been formerly adverted to. Besides this, he selected a cabinet of 
 medals, which the University purchased in November, 1769. His library Avas bought by 
 Mr James Spotiswood, whose name has been mentioned as having become the possessor of 
 Foulis's stock of books, and was exposed to Sale in February, 1779. The catalogue 
 (Avhich is entitled " Bibliotheca Mooriana") contains 2724 articles, in every department 
 of literature, more particularly Grecian, and Mathematical science. 
 
 In 1761 Moor Avas appointed Vice-Rector by the Earl of Errol, then Lord Rector; and 
 in April, 1763, he applied for the degree of Doctor of Laws, which Avas granted him by 
 the University, in consideration of his talents and services. Three years afterwards he 
 was appointed Clerk to the University, but his health was noAV so much broken, that he 
 requested and obtained leave to employ an assistant in teaching his public and private 
 classes, in case of his own inability. He regained his sti'ength considerably, but for the 
 last tAvelve years of his life he seems to have enjoyed little good health, — a circumstance 
 which inflamed a temper naturally irritable. In March, 1774, he found himself so much 
 exhausted, that he offei-ed to resign his professorship, if the Faculty Avould appoint 
 Mr John Young (Avho had been his assistant) successor, but to this they Avould not consent. 
 
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 130 
 
 Accordingly, on the 5tli of May, he subscribed a deed of resignation, on condition that 
 he should be allowed to retain his house and salary, which his colleagues accepted. 
 
 Of the remaining part of his life little is known. His death, which took place on 
 September 17tli, 1779, is thus noticed in the newspapers of the day: — " On Friday the 
 17th current, died here, James Moor, LL.D. Emeritus Profeffor of Greek in the Univer- 
 iity of Glafgow, eminent for his learning, of which he has left a lasting monument in his 
 writings, particularly in his excellent Grammar of the Greek Language ; and no lels 
 eminent for his affeclionate goodnefs of heart, of which he has left a faithful remembrance 
 in the brealls of his friends." When a child, JMoor lost the sight of one of his eyes in the 
 measles. His constitution was naturally weakly, and was probably rendered more so from 
 the exertions which he made in the acquisition of knowledge. This, perhaps, added to his 
 irritability of temper, and led to some unseemly exhibitions of violence in his class. 
 
 Of Moor's talents as a philologist, no doubt can be entertained ; but some of his other 
 literary productions are beneath criticism. He wrote several odes, one of which, entitled 
 " The Linnet, or Happiness at Home," appeared in Dr Gilbert Stuart's series of the 
 Edinburgh Review and Magazine, in November, 1775. Unfortunately the Doctor's house- 
 keeper makes a conspicuous figure on this, as on too many other occasions. But perhaps 
 the most curious of Moor's poetical productions is his Epitaph, written by himself, and 
 which we are now enabled to print from a copy in Mr David Laing's possession. 
 
 To Mr. p. R. [^Professor Richardson?] 
 
 I have a thing done my dear Willy, 
 
 Which well confidered is not filly ; 
 
 I have, — but promife ye wont laugh, 
 
 I have wrote mine own Epitaph. 
 
 From vanity ye will not free it. 
 
 Nor Ihou'd, i grant; — yet come and fee it. 
 
 You'll find I do the belt I can. 
 
 To imitate my filler Swan ; 
 
 And Hep out of the world in June — 
 
 Step which I judge I may Hep foon. 
 
 Valete ftep plumbline deorlum 
 
 Sad supine Hep upon the Dorsum. 
 
 EPITAPH. 
 
 Here lye the Bones of D^octor Moor] 
 Who lived contented tho' but poor 
 Piece of a poet he was once 
 By Infpiration or by Chance.
 
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 Nor was he very far to feek 
 
 Either in Latin or in Greek. 
 
 JMoreover too, — which is no low matter — 
 
 He was well verf 'd in Greek Geometry :* 
 
 Knew too the Rules and the Reductions 
 
 Of Algebra, Fluents and Fluxions. 
 
 Could penetrate into the natures 
 
 Of Curves, their Tangencies and Quadratures, 
 
 And bring to fluxional Equation 
 
 Problems of Curve — Red;ification ; 
 
 Friend of tlie fatherlefs and poor 
 
 Who weepf the Death of D[]octor Moor^ 
 
 Know that thefe verfes, ye who fee 'em 
 
 Were by himfelf wrote — ante diem. 
 
 " Himfelf too much he praifes " — " Hufti ! 
 
 Or ye will make his aflies blufli. 
 
 Had he himfelf not done it, Brother ! 
 
 It ne'er had been done by another." 
 
 This Epitaph was copied from the original in the hand writing of Dr Moor by the 
 Rev. Dr Traill (the biographer of Dr Robert Simson), who procured it, with a few 
 others of Moor's papers, from the late Andrew Foulis. The other notices are taken from 
 a short memoir drawn up by Moor's son, and from the University Records. 
 
 Essays Read by Dr Moor in the Literary Society, 
 February 6, 1752. An Effay on Hiflorical Compofition. 
 
 This was the first Essay read in the Literary Society. See No. V. 
 
 March 1, 1754. An Effay on the Compofition of the Pidure defcribed in the Dialogue 
 of Cebes. 
 
 February 8, 1755. An Effay on the Influence of Philosophy upon the Fine Arts. 
 On the End of Tragedy according to Ariftotle. 
 
 First published in 1763. 
 
 November 30, 1764. On the StruAure of the Greek Language, and the Method of 
 ascertaining the meaning of the Particles of that Tongue. 
 
 November 29, 1765. Remarks on Dr. Warburton's Critical Notes on Mr. Pope, in 
 his laft edition of his Works. 
 
 An Effay on the Prepofitions of the Greek Language. 1766. 
 
 December 9, 1769. Some Obfervations on the Genius of Englifli Verfe. 
 
 * Perhaps these lines should he read thus, 
 
 Moreover too, — which is no low matter, — he 
 Was well vers'd in Greek Geometry. ] 
 
 \ In the MS. the word " wail" is written above as an amendment. 
 
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 No. V. 
 
 THE LITERARY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
 
 Since the notice of the Literary Society, at page 15, was printed, the following Extracts 
 from the first volume of the Records have been received. They are in the hand-writing 
 of Professor Richardson. 
 
 "Friday, January 10th, 1752. It was agreed at this firft meeting of the firfl twelve 
 members of the Literary Society in Glafgow College, that they flionld meet weekly on 
 Thurfday at half an hour after fix o'clock afternoon ; And that one of the fociety Ihould 
 read a Paper drawn up by him, Avhich might be the fubjedl of converfation at that meeting. 
 And the members having by lot drawn the numbers as in the lift adjoining, it was agreed 
 that no difcourfe Ihould be read before February 6th or 7th ; but that at the three firft 
 meetings, fome of the fociety fliould read an account of fome new book. It was also 
 agreed, that at that, and the fucceeding meeting, a Prefes fliould be chofen, And that 
 thereafter, the member who read to the Society Ihould be the Prefident of the next meeting; 
 and that the Prefident immediately after the difcourfe was read, Ihould afk the members 
 prefent their opinions and what they had to fay on the fubjeft of the difcourfe." 
 
 Mr. James Moor, Prof'- of Greek. 
 
 Dr. Robert Hamilton, Prof- of Anatomy. 
 
 Dr. [[William] Leechman, Prof- of Divinity 
 
 A[r. James Clow, Prof' of Logic. 
 
 Mr. Hercules Lindfay, ProP' of Law. 
 
 Dr. Robert Dick, Prof- of Nat. Pliilofophy 
 
 The twelve constituent members were, 
 
 Rev. Mr. William Ci'aig, jVIin'- of Glafgow. 
 Mr. George Rofs, Prof' of Humanity. 
 Dr. William Cullcn, Prof'- of Medicine. 
 Mr. Adam Smith, Prof'- of Moral Philofophy. 
 Mr. Richard Betham. 
 Dr. John BriiLane. 
 
 Though the above were the constituent members, the following were also considered 
 
 as members, and joined at the ensuing meetings. 
 
 Mr. William Ruat, Prof- of Church Hiftory 
 Mr. Robert Bogle, merchant in Glafgow. 
 Mr. Alexander Graham. 
 Mr. William Crawford, merchant in Glafgow 
 Mr. George Maxwell 
 
 Dr. Robert Simfon, Prof'- of Mathematics. 
 
 John Dalrymple, Efq. Advocate, (now Sir 
 
 John Dalrymple). 
 William ^lure of Caldwell, Efq. 
 The Rev**- and Hon"'' Pat: Boyle. 
 Walter Stuart, Efq. Advocate. 
 Mr. Thomas Melville. 
 
 Extracted from the minutes of some of the ensuing meetings : — 
 
 Jan'^ 16. Dr. Ciillen read an account of a treatife entitled Cofmologie by Maupertuis — 
 Jan'- 23. Mr. Smith read an Account of fome of Mr. David Hume's EHays on Commerce —
 
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 Jan'' 30. Mr. Clow read an account of Harris's Hermes. It was then agreed to change 
 the day of meeting to Friday : and on Friday Feb'' 7. jMr. Moor read the firft dilcourfe 
 entitled " On Hiftorical Compofition." 
 
 In 1753 the Society received the following additional members : — 
 
 John Graham, Efq, of Dongaldfton. . 
 John Callender, Efq. of Craigforth. 
 David Hume, Efq. 
 Mr. George Moorhead, afterwards Prof'' of 
 
 Humanity. 
 Mr. Robert Foulis, Univerfity Printer.* 
 
 Mr. John Anderfon, afterwards Prof' of Nat : 
 
 Philofophy. 
 Mr. Fergufon, now 1 believe in Edinburgh 
 
 College. 
 Mr. Wait. 
 
 In 1 756 — 57, and afterwards, 
 
 Mr. Andrew Foulis, Printer. 
 
 Mr. William Campbell. 
 
 Mr. Alexander Wilfon, Prof'- of Allro- 
 
 nomy. 
 Dr. Jofeph Black, Prof'- of Medicine. 
 Mr. Andrews. 
 
 Dr. Alexander Stevenfon, afterwards Prof"^' 
 
 of Medicine. 
 Rev"^ Mr. Mackay. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Hamilton, Pi'of' of Anatomy. 
 Mr. James Buchanan, ProP' of Hebrew. 
 Rev'^ Mr. James Crombie. 
 
 Mr. John Millar, Prof '• of Law. 
 Dr. Trail, Prof'' of Divinity. 
 
 In 1761. 
 
 Mr. Cumin, Prof'' of Hebrew. 
 
 Dr. Williamfon, Prof'' of Mathematics. 
 
 In 1762—63. 
 
 Dr. Wight, Prof- of Church Hiftory. 
 Mr. Ogilvie, now I believe a Prof'' in Aber- 
 deen. 
 
 George Ofwald, Efq. [of Scotftown]. 
 Lord Cardrofs, now Earl of Buchan. 
 
 In 1764, and afterwards, 
 
 Dr. Walker, Minifter of Moffat. 
 
 Dr. Thomas Reid, Prof' of JVIoral Philofophy. 
 
 Mr. Robinfon, now in Edinburgh College. 
 Dr. Irvine, Lecturer on Chemiftry. 
 
 Mr. W"' Richardfon, Prof' of Humanity. 
 Mr. Geo : Jardine, Prof'' of Logic. 
 Mr. John Young, Prof of Greek. 
 Mr. Arch'*- Arthur, Prof' of Moral Philo 
 Ibphy. 
 
 In 1773 — 1774, and afterwards. 
 
 Rev''' Mr. James Bell, College-Chaplain, af- 
 terwards Min'' of Coldftream. 
 
 Dr. Taylor, now Minifter of Glafgow. 
 
 Mr. John Wright, a minifter in Perthihire, 
 then a College-Chaplain. 
 
 * Mr Foulis was therefore not an original member, as stated at page 15, on the authority of Richardson's 
 Letter.
 
 134 
 
 W"' Craig, Advocate [now Lord Craig]. 
 Rev*- Dr. Charters, Min"^- of "Wilton. 
 Mr. Gilbert Hamilton, merchant in Glafgow. 
 Mr. Arch''- Graham, merchant in Glafgow, 
 
 [afterwards Cashier of the Thistle Bank]. 
 Dr. Bailie, Prof'' of Divinity. 
 Dr. Walter Young, Min' of Erfkine. 
 Dr. Findlay, Prof- of Divinity. 
 Rev"*- Mr. Hugh M'Diarmid. 
 Rev*^ Mr. Andrew INI'Donald. 
 Dr. Davidfon, Principal of the Univerfity. 
 INIr. W" Hamilton, Prof- of Anatomy. 
 Dr. Taylor, then Minifler, now Principal of 
 
 the Univerfity. 
 Dr. Couper, now Prof' of Aftronomy. 
 Dr. Richard Millar, Lecturer on Materia 
 
 Medica. 
 Dr. Cleghorn, Lecturer on Chemiftry. 
 Dr. M'Leod, Prof^- of [Church] Hiftory. 
 
 Mr. Mylne, now Prof- of Moral Philofophy. 
 
 Dr. Pat: Graham, Min-^ of Aberfoyle. 
 
 Mr. John Millar, Advocate. 
 
 Dr. John Lockhart, Min' in Glafgow. 
 
 Dr. Hope, Prof'- [of Chemistry] in Edin- 
 
 burgh. 
 Dr. James JeflFray, Prof'- of Anatomy. 
 Mr. James Millar, Prof- of Mathematics. 
 Dr. J. Brown, now living at St. Andrews. 
 Dr. Thomas Brown, lecturer on Botany. 
 Mr. Mactuik, Afliftant Prof- of [Church] 
 
 Hiftory. 
 Mr. Alex""- Craig. 
 Dr. Carmichael. 
 Dr. Marllial. 
 Mr. Pat: Wilfon, afterwards Prof' of Aftro- 
 
 nomy. 
 Mr. Dunlop, Suigeon in Glafgow. 
 
 In 1787, and afterwards, 
 
 Rev*^ Dr. Rankin, Min'- in Glafgow. 
 
 Mr. Finlay of Bogfide. 
 
 Dr. Freer, Prof' of Medicine. 
 
 Mr. Robert Davidfon, Prof'- of Law. 
 
 Rev"^ Dr. Macgill, Min'- in Glafgow. 
 
 Mr. Jackfon, at Ayr. 
 
 Dr. Meikleham, Prof'- of Nat: Philofophy. 
 
 The Rev"^ Mr. Gavin Gibb, Minifter of 
 Stratliblane, [afterwards Min'- of St. An- 
 drews Church, and Prof- of Oriental 
 Languages]. 
 
 Mr. Lockhart Moorhead, Librarian to the 
 L^niverfity, [afterwards Prof'- of Nat: 
 History]. 
 
 Essays Read before the Society by Robert Foulis.* 
 
 Nov'- 9. 1764. Memoir on the Difcovery and Culture of Genius. 
 
 March. 29. 1765. What is Faction diftinguilhed from Patriotifm. 
 
 Nov'- 8. 1765. A Diicourfe concerning the Animofities between England and Scotland. 
 
 Nov'- 14. 1766. Oblervations on the Knowledge or Science necellkry to a Commercial 
 Town or State. 
 
 Feb*- 27. 1767. Whether a general Convention of Deputies from the different princes 
 of Europe in order to find out what might be for the public good of their rel'pective States 
 might not conduce to the good of the whole. 
 
 * These lists also include the questions proposed by the broUiers.
 
 135 
 
 Nov'- 13. 1767. Some farther lUuftrations of the advantages which might arife from an 
 annual Convention reprefenting the different States of Europe. 
 
 Dec'- 4. 1767. From what reafons founded in nature do the Imitative Arts of Mufic, 
 Painting, and Poetry proceed. 
 
 March. 11. 1768. Whether is it true that thofe who with a good education would 
 make the befl men with a bad one make the worll. 
 
 Nov'- 18. 1768. An Account of the Chevalier Ramfay's Principles of Univerfal Religion. 
 
 March. 17. 1769. What is the connection between things human and divine hinted at 
 by M. Antoninus in Par. 13. Book 3. and wherein lies the importance of attending to this 
 conne6lion in [[order to] our performing aright every duty we owe to God or man. 
 
 Nov'- 10. 1769. On the eflablilbments wanting in this Univerfity which are neceflary 
 to render education more complete. 
 
 Feb''- 24. 1770. Whether Learning, Arts, Sciences and Manners in Europe are upon 
 the whole on the Advance or Decline. 
 
 May 4. 1770. What would be the probable confequence of departing from the prefent 
 law with regard to Literary Property and making that property perpetual. 
 
 Nov'- 9. 1770. Continuation of the Subjedl Literary Pi'operty. 
 
 Nov'- 8. 1771. On the improvement of Agriculture and at the fame time diminifliing 
 the expence. 
 
 Essays Read by Andrew Foulis. 
 
 Dec. 14. 1764. On the firft Religion of Mankind and the notion of a chaos. 
 
 Dec. 13, 1765. On the Advancement of Learning. 
 
 Mar. 7. 1766. Whether a llricler Police with regai'd to Morals might not be ellabliihed 
 in Britain confiftent with Liberty. 
 
 Dec. 9. 1766. A Difcourfe concerning Literary Property. 
 
 March. 13. 1767. Wherein lyes the fuperior excellence of the Virtue of Simplicity. 
 
 Dec. 18. 1667. Some Reflections on National Profperity, particularly that of Great 
 Britain. 
 
 Mar. 25. 1768. Would it be for the benefit of the public to dirainilli the number of 
 Capital Punilhments. 
 
 Dec. 23. 1768. Reflexions on the degree of Compaffion due to follies and vices of 
 mankind. 
 
 April 28. 1769. In order to an equal reprefentation of Property and People ought not 
 the power to be taken from decayed Burghs and given to thofe which have increafed. 
 
 Dec. 15. 1769. Some Account of the Egyptian Papyrus and other materials which 
 the Ancients ufed to write upon. 
 
 Dec. 21. 1770. An Account of fome great Libraries among the Ancients.
 
 136 
 
 No. VI. 
 
 ROBERT FOULTS'S LAST LETTER TO HIS PARTNERS. 
 
 Messrs Glassford, Campbell, and Ingram, 
 
 Gentlemen, London, April 29th, 1776. 
 
 Before your letter came to hand, the time came on that it became 
 neceflary to confult and decide what was to be done with refpe6t to a Sale this year. 
 Mr. Ingram and Mr. Gordon (fortunately coming to London) went along with me to 
 jNIr. Chriltie, to have his judgment how and when we ihould proceed. IVIr. Chriftie is 
 undoubtedly the moll knowing judge in Britain being llored with knowledge arifing from 
 daily experience, as the chief Sales are made by him. The employment of no particular 
 Sale can be a great obje6l to him, becaufe he has always more in his offer than he can 
 accept : his intereft being the fame with the proprietor of the PiAures, as the fuccefs not 
 only increafes his Commiffion, but supports his reputation, which is of great importance to 
 him becaufe it throws all the bufmefs of London into his hands. Having met with this 
 gentleman and he being before apprifed that the gentlemen who waited on him had a 
 joint intereft in the pictures, he fpoke to the following purpofe ; Gentlemen, When Mr. 
 Foulis firft came to Town, I made a propofal to him of feleding a number of his Pictures 
 to intermix with a Sale which I had in view ; Mr. Foulis feemed willing to accept of this 
 propofal, but it was over-ruled, and the only opportunity I had of ferving him this feafon 
 loft; for a Sale on the days propofed would have had no company, and you run the hazard 
 of being offered half-a-crown for what you expe<5l 20 pounds. This difeafe of a glutted 
 market has been gradually brought on thefe ten years paft by five or fix people yearly 
 importing new collecftions, and has been brought to a crifis by thefe importations, and by 
 an Engliiliman who had gone to Paris and eftabliihed a Paper Manufactory there for 
 lining walls : This man had fallen into the commerce of Pictures, and engaged a number 
 of wealthy people at Paris to lay out their money in that way, and accordingly a great 
 collection of paintings was brought into London, and an unfucceffful Sale attempted, in 
 which the perfons concerned bought in the Pictures, and he imderftood that the whole 
 would be recalled back to Paris, where their higheft priced Pictures had generally gone, 
 being bought by Frenchmen who came to London for that purpofe and commonly in 
 prefence of many of the Englilli Nobility ; And Mr. Chriftie gave feveral inftances, 
 particularly of the gentleman who bought Crawford Moor from Lord Selkirk, and other 
 examples more recent ; and faid that this difeafe being brought to a crifis would prove its 
 own cure, for to his "certain knowledge none of the perfons who ufed to import any 
 Pictures annually would go abroad this year, they having all fuffered feverely for what
 
 137 
 
 they had done; and he thouj^l.t that in confequence next meeting of Parliament mufl 
 afford a better market for Pictures than any that liad been for feveral years paft, fo that 
 attempting a Sale in the prefent indifpofition of the public, would be attempting a thing 
 irapradicable and deflru6live beyond meafure. Thele and the like reafons fatisfied Mr. 
 Gordon and Mr. Ingram, that a Sale fliould not be attempted this year. Altho' this was a 
 profound humiliation to me, having undertaken this with fanguine hopes of fuccefs, and fo 
 much the more affli^ling as I fee fuch a defponding fpirit, which in reality there is no good 
 reafon for, becaufe the colle6lion is upon the whole undoubtedly the bell ever oflFered to 
 Sale in London, never any containing fo many capital pictures of the leading Mafters of 
 every School. I have, indeed, been greatly difappointed in my expectations of drawing 
 the attention of the public ; the advertifemeats are fo innumerable, and the papers them- 
 felves fo numei'ous that the expence becomes great, and the progrefs in making any thing 
 known to the public aftonifliingly flow. None of the principal Exhibitions lay out lefs 
 than 300 pounds in advertifnig, and a like fum upon Catalogues which they give away ; 
 and this year there have been Exhibitions in all quarters, and above 40 or 50 different 
 kinds. The vifits that I have had, have been generally proraifing to bring fomething good 
 at laft, becaufe they have been perfons of rank, perfons who have been in Italy and feen 
 the bell colle6lions there ; and fome mofl knowing gentlemen left this teflimony that they 
 never had feen any collediou that bore fo many genuine marks of originality. I have 
 illuftrated the principal pictures to almoft every perfon who leemed to deferve it ; more 
 particularly the Transfiguration, becaufe I apprehend there was fomething fo wonderful^in 
 falling upon that, that I did not expect to make the tenth part of the progrefs I have 
 made in eflablifliing its reputation ; and were it generally known to princes to be what it 
 really is, fo as to raife competition for obtaining it, it ought in courfe to give a greater 
 price than any Pi6lure has given fince the Refloration of Painting ; becaufe the Roman 
 Pidlure is efteemed the mofl valuable in the world, and altho' larger, yet in many refpeds 
 left imperfeA in comparifon of this, which I have endeavoured to fliew in detail every day 
 to the mofl inquifitive. 
 
 I am forry for the expence that has been incurred : were it in my power the Company 
 fliould fee my gratitude. The care of the Pictures has been no eafy matter ; they have 
 furniilied perpetual occupation, but not without doing them good. What further particu- 
 lars may be thought proper I beg Mr. John Ingram to add, after taking the trouble of 
 reading this letter. You have exercifed much patience in the whole of this affair, exert 
 prudence and magnanimity to the laft, and trufl that God will fend you his Blefling, 
 
 I am, with my befl wiflies to you all 
 
 your mofl faithful 
 
 and ob' Servant 
 
 Robert Foulis.
 
 138 
 
 No. VII. 
 
 PAPER USED BY ROBERT AND ANDREW FOULIS. 
 
 The following- curious statement, from the papers of Mr John Fleming, has been com- 
 municated by the Reverend Dr Fleming, Professor of Oriental Languages in the University 
 of Glasgow. Unfortunately it came too late to be referred to in the Account of Printing. 
 A Lift of all the Paper made ufe of in printing Greek and Lat. Claffics from the year 
 1742 to 1765 by IMess"- R. & A. Foulis, with the Drawback on the same. 
 
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 3148 Reams, 11 quires of fine Foolfcap 1 ■ 
 
 73 Ditto, 10 qu^^- 
 
 902 Ditto, 16i qu"- 
 
 461 Ditto, 11 qu"- 
 
 131 Ditto, 7 qu^=- 
 
 145 Ditto, 12 qu"- 
 
 97 Ditto, 17 qu^ 
 
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 in Gr. Britain, provided that the s**' paper be ufed in printing any books in y^ Latin, 
 Greek, Oriental, or Northern languages within the Univerfities of Scotland, or any of 
 them by permiflion of the Principal for 32 years from 1712. 
 
 By Aa of y' 12th Q. Anne, the following additional Duties upon paper made in Britain, 
 and with the like difcount and drawbacks, as in y" former Ad, for 32 years, from 1714, 
 viz. d. 
 
 Demy fine 9 
 
 Demy fecond 6 
 
 Crown fine 6 
 
 Crown fecond 4i 
 
 Foolfcap fine 
 
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 Fine Pot G 
 
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 Brown large cap 3 
 
 Small ordinary brown 2 
 
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 George !"• 
 
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 INDEX. 
 
 Aberdeen, 6, 82. 
 Adams, James, 25. 
 Albert!, 22. 
 Allan, David, 88, 90. 
 Anderson, Andrew, 2, 3. 
 
 his heirs, 3. 
 
 George, 1, 14, 120. 
 
 John, Dumbarton, 4. 
 
 Professor John, 133. 
 
 Andrews, Mr, 133. 
 
 Angelo, Michael, 43. 
 
 Arbuthnot, Mr, 33. 
 
 Arthur, Professor, 15, 16, 133. 
 
 Argyle, Duke of, 20, 27, 86. 
 
 Auldhouse, Robert Sanders of, 3. 
 
 Ayr, 6. 
 
 Baillie, Dr James, 134. 
 Baird, Miss Jenny, 9. 
 
 Miss Mally, 9. 
 
 Beattie, Dr .James, 32, 33, 34, 36. 
 
 Bell, Rev. James, 133. 
 
 Betham, Richard, 132. 
 
 Black, Dr Joseph, 16, 25, 28, 43, 133. 
 
 Blaeu, his Atlas, 82. 
 
 Bogle, Robert, 132. 
 
 Boyle, Patrick, 132. 
 
 Boutcher, Miss, 43. 
 
 William, 43. 
 
 Brechin, 6. 
 Brisbane, Dr, 127. 
 
 Brisbane, Dr John, 132. 
 Brown, Dr J., 134. 
 
 Dr Thomas, 134. 
 
 Buchan, Earl of, 23, 133. 
 Buchanan, Professor James, 133. 
 
 William, 87. 
 
 Bute, Earl of, 90. 
 
 Callender, John, of Craigforth, 133. 
 Camlachie, village of, 13. 
 Campbell, John, of Clathic, 18, 38. 
 
 of Shawfield, 88. 
 
 William, 133. 
 
 Capperonier, M., 22. 
 
 Cardross, Lord [Earl of Buchan], 133. 
 
 Carmichael, Gersham, 120, 121, 126. 
 
 Dr, 134. 
 
 Chalmers, Sir George, 81. 
 Chapman, Robert, 46. 
 Charles the First, 1, 81. 
 
 the Second, 10. 
 
 Charteris, Rev. Dr, 133. 
 Christie, Mr, 1 36. 
 Clarke, Dr Samuel, 15, 31. 
 Cleghorn, Dr Robert, 134. 
 Clow, Professor, 15, 132, 133. 
 Cochran, William, 24, 84, 86, 88. 
 Colquhoun, James, 82. 
 Cordiner, Charles, 87. 
 Couper, Dr James, 134. 
 Coutts, James, 85. 
 s 2
 
 140 
 
 Craig, AJexaiider, 134. 
 
 John, 15. 
 
 Rev. William, 1 32. 
 
 U'illiam [Lord Craig], 134. 
 
 Craufurd, Hugh, 121. 
 
 William, 23, 29, 132. 
 
 Crorabie, Rev. James, 133. 
 CuUen, Dr, 25, 132. 
 CuUoden, battle of, 129. 
 Cumin, Professor, 133. 
 
 Dalrymple, Sir John, 23, 28, 132. 
 Danby, Earl of, 86. 
 Darien Expedition, 11. 
 Davidson, Principalj 134. 
 
 Professor, 134. 
 
 Dennistoun, James, of Colgreine, 9. 
 
 Dewar, Robert, 38. 
 
 Dibdin, Rev. T. F., 14. 
 
 Dick, Robert, 120, 121, 12G, 127, 132. 
 
 Dodsley, the bookseller, 33, 34. 
 
 Douglas, Dr, 40. 
 
 Dryden, John, 29. 
 
 Dumbarton, 6. 
 
 Dumblain, 7. 
 
 Dumfries, G. 
 
 Duncan, James, printer, 5. 
 
 bookseller, 46. 
 
 Dundee, 6. 
 
 Dunlop, Alexander, 120, 121, 126, 128, 129. 
 
 Mr [University Librarian], 128. 
 
 Mr, 134. 
 
 Principal, 128. 
 
 ^^'illiam, 128. 
 
 Edinburgh, 1, 2, 4, 16, 29, 30, 31, 40, 43, 
 
 46, 82, 84, 85, 128. 
 Edmonston, Colonel, 88. 
 Elizabeth, Queen, 85. 
 Elliot, Mr, 28. 
 Elzevir, 19, 33, 35. 
 England, 85. 
 
 England, New, 14. 
 Errol, Earl of, 128, 129. 
 Etiennes, 33. 
 
 Faulls, Andrew, 9. 
 
 Fergus the First, 82. 
 
 Fergusson, Adam, 25, 133. 
 
 Findlay, Dr, 134. 
 
 Finlay, Mr, of Bogside, 134. 
 
 Flanders, 85. 
 
 Fleming, Robert, 83, 84. 
 
 Fleming and Yair, 27. 
 
 Forbes, William, 120, 121. 
 
 Foulis, Andrew [^brother of Robert], his 
 birth and education, 10 — becomes a mem- 
 ber of the Literary Society, and reads 
 discourses there, 16, 133, 135 — is dis- 
 suaded from the Academy, but afterwards 
 becomes a partner, 19 — officiates as auc- 
 tioneer, 42 — dies, 37 — his indefatigable 
 industry, 37. 
 
 Andrew [son of Robert], 16, 36, 
 
 43, 131. 
 
 James, 10. 
 
 John, 10. 
 
 Robert, his birth and parentage, 9 — 
 
 sent apprentice to a barber, 10 — attends 
 the University, 10 — visits Oxford and the 
 continent, 11 — commences bookseller, 12 
 — had several books printed by Urie, G 
 — commences printer, 12 — appointed Uni- 
 versity printer, 13 — first books printed by 
 him, 14 — his marriage, 43 — his second 
 marriage, 43 — elected member of the Li- 
 terary Society, 15, 133 — his essays read 
 there, 16, 134, 135 — the Academy is in- 
 stituted, 18 — his motives for it, 17, 82 — 
 is dissuaded from it by Mr Townshend and 
 others, 19 — his letter to Harvock, 20, 21, 
 22 — his difficulty in procuring teachers, 
 84 — Sir John Dalrymple's letter to him, 
 23 — 28 — becomes acquainted with Pro-
 
 141 
 
 fessor Richardson, 31 — peculiarities in liis 
 character, 32 — obtains permission to print 
 Gray's poems, 32 — presents Gray with a 
 copy of tiie folio Homer, 34 — Beattie's 
 letter to him relative to a proposed edition 
 of Virgil, 35, 36 — his obstinacy in con- 
 tinuing the Academy, 36 — his career on 
 the decline, 36 — his brother's death, 37 — 
 determines to discontinue the Academy, 
 38 — goes to London with his pictures, 
 38 — exhibits them, 39 — his letter to Lord 
 Mountstuart, 88 — they are sold to great 
 disadvantage, 39 — is consoled by Dr Hun- 
 ter, 40 — leaves London, reaches Edin- 
 burgh, and dies, 40 — his character by 
 Professor Richardson, 41, 42 — his Cata- 
 logue of Pictures, 43 — notice of him in 
 the Literary Society, 44, 45 — one of his 
 daughters married to Arch. IVIaclauchlane, 
 84 — his last letter to his partners, 136, 137. 
 
 Foulis, R. & A,, their edition of Shakespear, 
 21, 23— Milton, 34 — projected Virgil, 36 
 — receive premiums from the Select So- 
 ciety, 30, 31 — their insolvency, 45 — their 
 affairs seitled)46 — paper used by them, 1 38. 
 
 France, 11, 17. 
 
 Freer, Dr Robert, 134. 
 
 Georgia, 14. 
 
 (xermany, 85. 
 
 Gibb, Dr Gavin, 134. 
 
 Glassford, Campbell, and Ingram, 136. 
 
 Glassford, John, of Dougaldston, 18, 38. 
 
 Glasgow, 1, 2,4,5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 
 
 15, 18, 20, 27, 28, 30, 31, 33, 34, 43, 82, 
 
 83, 84, 86, 87, 89, 90, 121, 128, 129. 
 
 Courant, 6. 
 
 Journal, 6, 7, 8, 128. 
 
 University of, 4, 11, 13, 40, 88, 
 
 119, 120, 122, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 
 
 132. 
 Glencairn, Earl of, 87. 
 
 Glencairn, Countess of, 87. 
 
 Go vane, Donald, younger, 5, 120, 121. 
 
 Graham, Alexander, 132. 
 
 Archibald, 134. 
 
 John, of Dougaldston, 133. 
 
 Dr Patrick, 134. 
 
 Gray, the poet, 32, 33, 34. 
 Guido, 24, 43. 
 
 Hamilton, Balfour, and Neill, 31, 32. 
 
 Duke of, 85, 88. 
 
 Earl of, 85. 
 
 Gavine, 86. 
 
 Gilbert, 134. 
 
 John, 120. 
 
 Dr Robert, 9, 132. 
 
 Thomas, 133. 
 
 Professor William, 134. 
 
 William, of Bangour, 23, 28, 29. 
 
 town of, G. 
 
 Harvie, Thomas, 4, 5. 
 Harvock, 19, 20. 
 Harwood, Dr Edward, 14. 
 Heinsius, Daniel, 35. 
 
 Nicholas, 35. 
 
 Hemsterhuse, 22, 
 
 Holland, 3, 18, 22, 82. 
 
 Holmes, David, 121. 
 
 Hope, Dr, 134. 
 
 Horace [^immaculate edition]], errors in, 14. 
 
 Hume, David, 132, 133. 
 
 Hunter, Dr William, 40. 
 
 Hutcheson, Dr Francis, 10, 11,15,16,20,21. 
 
 Jackson, Mr, 134. 
 Jameson, George, 81, 82. 
 
 William, 122. 
 
 Jardine, Professor, 133. 
 Jeffray, Dr James, 134. 
 Ingram, Archibald, 18, 38. 
 Inverary, 6. 
 Inverness, 6.
 
 142 
 
 Johnstone, James, 9. 
 Johnstoun, John, 120, 121. 
 Irvine, Dr, 133. 
 Irvine, town of, 6. 
 
 Kennedy, Thomas, 88. 
 Kilmarnock, Earl of, 128, 129. 
 Kilmarnock, town of, 6. 
 
 Lanark, 6. 
 
 Law, John, 125. 
 
 Le Clerc, 90. 
 
 Leechman, Dr William, 15, 132. 
 
 Lindsay, Hercules, 132. 
 
 Lithgo, Gideon, 2. 
 
 Lockhart, Dr John, 134<. 
 
 London, 7, 20, 21, 26, 28, 33, 34, 38, 39, 
 
 40, 43, 44, 129, 136. 
 Loudon, John, 120, 126. 
 
 M'Diarmid, Rev. Hugh, 134. 
 M'Donald, Rev. Andrew, 134. 
 Macgill, Dr Stevenson, 134- 
 Mackay, Rev. Mr, 133. 
 Maclauchlane, Archibald, 84, 88. 
 M'Leod, Dr, 134. 
 Macturk, Professor, 134. 
 M'Ure's History of Glasgow, 5. 
 Mar, Earl of, 7. 
 Marshall, Dr, 134. 
 Maxwell, George, 132. 
 
 Sir .Tohn, of Netherpollok, 1 20. 
 
 of Polloc, family of, 3. 
 
 Moikk'ham, Dr, 134. 
 Melville, Thomas, 132. 
 Millar, "Professor James, 134. 
 
 Professor .Jolin, 15, 133. 
 
 .lohn, Advocite, 134. 
 
 Dr Richard, 134. 
 
 Mitchell, James, 88. 
 Montrose, family of, 37. 
 Moor, Elizabeth, 43. 
 
 Moor, James, 4-3, 127. 
 
 Dr James, 12, 16, 21, 22, 23, 127, 
 
 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133. 
 
 Morthland, Charles, 4, 120, 121, 124. 
 Mountstuart, Lord, 88, 89. 
 Muirhead, George, 129, 133. 
 
 Lockhart, 134. 
 
 Mure, Elizabeth, 127. 
 
 William, of Caldwell, 132. 
 
 Mylne, Professor, 134. 
 
 Naples, 86. 
 
 Nevvall, Miss Peggy, 9. 
 Northumberland, Countess of, 19, 20. 
 Earl of, 19, 20, 21. 
 
 Ogilvie, Mr, 133. 
 Orr, John, of Barrowfieid, 13. 
 Oswald, George, 133. 
 Oxford, University of, 11. 
 
 Paris, 17, 136. 
 
 Paton, George, 43. 
 
 Patterson, Marion, 9. 
 
 Paul, Robert, 87. 
 
 Pinkerton, John, 29, 81, 82. 
 
 Pitt, Mr, 27. 
 
 Pollok, Maxwells of, 3. 
 
 Pope, 21, 29. 
 
 Primrose, Lady Dorothy, 87. 
 
 Raeburn, Sir Henry, 40. 
 Ramsay, Allan, 10. 
 
 the Chevalier, 12. 
 
 Rankin, Rev. Dr, 134. 
 
 Raphael, 36, 40, 43, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89. 
 
 Reekie, John, 23. 
 
 Rcid, Dr Thomas, 16, 133. 
 
 Richardson, Professor, 15, 16, 29, 31, 32, 
 
 .39, 41, 130, 1.32, 13.3. 
 Ridpath, George, 4. 
 Robert II., 127.
 
 143 
 
 Robison, Professor, 133. 
 
 Rome, 86. 
 
 Roscommon, Earl of, his poems, 20. 
 
 Ross, Andrew, 120, 121. 
 
 Rosse, George, 12, 14, 132. 
 
 Ruat, William, 132. 
 
 Rubens, 81, 85, 88. 
 
 Salier, L'Abbe, 22. 
 
 Sanders, Robert, of Auldhouse, 2, 3. 
 
 Sandford, Mr, 88. 
 
 Scotland, 3, 17, 18, 40, 81, 82, 83, 85. 
 
 Scougal, 82. 
 
 Selkirk, Earl of, 27, 128, 129, 136. 
 
 Shakespear, 21, 23. 
 
 Shavvfield, Campbell of, 25, 88. 
 
 Simson, Professor John, 120, 121. 
 
 Dr Robert, 13, 120, 121, 131, 132. 
 
 Smellioj Alexander, 31. 
 
 Smith, Dr Adam, 16, 25, 28, 132. 
 
 Spalding, John, 82. 
 
 Spotiswood, James, 46, 129. 
 
 Stalker, Andrew, 7, 8, 9, 127. ' 
 
 St Andrews, 6. 
 
 St Clare, Dr Robert, 122. 
 
 St Johnstoun, 6. 
 
 Stephens, Robert, 12, 20. 
 
 -Henry, 31. 
 
 Stevenson, Dr Alexander, 133. 
 
 Stirling, Principal, 4, 120, 121, 122. 
 
 Stirling, town of, 6. 
 
 Strange, Robert, 29. 
 
 Stranraer, 6. 
 
 Stuart, Dr Gilbert, 130. 
 
 Walter, 132. 
 
 Sunderland, Earl of, 85. 
 
 Tassie, James, 90. 
 Tasso, 90. 
 Tay, Firth of, 7. 
 Taylor, Dr, 133. 
 
 Principal, 134. 
 
 Titian, 85. 
 
 Townshend, Right Hon. Charles, 19. 
 
 Trail, Dr, 131. 
 
 Professor, 35, 133. 
 
 Urie, Robeit, 5, 8, 9. 
 
 Vandyke, 81, 86. 
 Vatican, 21, 22, 89. 
 
 Wait, Mr, 133. 
 Walker, Dr, 133. 
 Warburton, Dr, 131. 
 Watson, James, 3, 
 Wedderburn, Mr, 28. 
 Whitefield, Rev. George, 14. 
 Wight, Dr, 133. 
 Williamson, Dr, 133. 
 Wilson, Dr Alexander, 13, 133. 
 Wilson & Baine, 12. 
 Wilson, Patrick, 134. 
 Wodrow, Dr, 37. 
 
 Robert, the historian, 4. 
 
 Wright, Rev. John, 133. 
 
 Yair, bookseller, 24. 
 Yorke, Mr, 86. 
 Young, John, 130, 133. 
 
 Thomas, 121. 
 
 Dr Walter, 134.
 
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 Pago 46, for John Spottiswoode, read James Spotiswootl. 
 
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