Smail, Adam, fl 1880 (Edinburgh bookseller)

Scope and Contents This is a manuscript ballad notebook dating from approximately 1710, containing "The Scot Litany", "You comans and pears", "The New Way of ye Lass of Pegges Mill", "The Last I Came O’er the Muir", and "Lord Randal". Previously owned by ballad collector William MacMath (1848-1922).Ink note on the fly-leaf, by William MacMath: "This volume - if such it can be called - has been purchased by me from Mr Adam Smail, Bookseller, 19 North Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh. He tells...