Poems;

And

Runnamede,

A Tragedy

by

The Rev. John Logan

One of the Ministers of Leith

A New Edition, with a Life of the Autor

Publisher: Bell & Bradfute, and W. Blackwood, Edinburgh, and Vernor & Hodd, London, 1805.  Original quarter leather over paper-covered boards.

This book was the subject of a plagiarism accusation, with most of the poems claimed to have been written by a friend of Logan’s, Michael Bruce.  Modern scholarship supports this claim, though at the time it was unsettled.  Logan was a Minister of Leith, but was to resign because of his drinking and his association with the theatre, and also because of his fathering an illegitimate son by a servant girl, and also impregnating another parishioner.  He went to London where due to help from, among others, Adam Smith, he became editor of the English Review.

The book contains poems, hymns and the play.

The play, Runnamede was his own work, and was produced on stage in Edinburgh, though not in London, due to political parallels drawn between King John and King George III.  The play is, of course, about the events around the signing of the Magna Carta.

The book is in good condition, boards worn, head and foot of spine worn down to the text block.  Occasional isolated spots to pages, one page darkened along the fold, but mainly clean and bright and tightly bound.

12mo 16cm tall, xxxiv, xxiii, 189 pages plus 2 page publisher’s advertisements.

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