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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
LevelItem
Ref NoMS 30/2/704
TitleCharles Dilly to James Beattie from London
Date24 January 1794
Extent1 Item1
Administrative HistoryCharles Dilly [1739-1807] Bookseller in The Poultry, London, with his brother Edward [see Edward Dilly for more info]
DescriptionDesire to reprint Minstrel and other poems. Nearly twelve years since he last printed them, but there have been two or three spurious editions. Wants to print a very handsome edition to supplant all others. Will Beattie send corrected copy or direct Dilly? Creech printed a small duodecimo edition a dozen or fifeenth years ago - Dilly presumes whole must be sold.
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