George Ritchie Kinloch collection of Scottish proverbs, 1824.

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George Ritchie Kinloch collection of Scottish proverbs, 1824.

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Scrapbooks containing transcribed Scottish proverbs, collected by antiquarian and ballad authority, George Ritchie Kinloch.

4 volumes (.75 linear ft.)

eng,

Houghton Library

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Houghton Library

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Kinloch, George Ritchie, 1796-1877

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George Ritchie Kinloch, was a Scottish antiquary and authority on ballad lore, best known as editor of Ancient Scottish Ballads . He was born at Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, Scotland, about 1796, and became a lawyer. In 1824 he projected, without publishing, a "Collection of Scottish proverbs." In 1827 he published, Ancient Scottish ballads recovered from tradition, and never before published, and The ballad book. In 1842 he was appointed assistant-keeper of the register of deeds in Edinburgh Re...