George Richie Kinloch collection of Scottish proverbs, 1824.

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George Richie Kinloch collection of Scottish proverbs, 1824.

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Collection of 3 scrapbooks containing slips of paper pasted onto volume sheets. Slips have Scottish proverbs, English equivalents, and notes concerning the proverbial expressions. Also includes one volume of loose slips with proverbs. Includes a total of over four thousand proverbs in three groupings: two distinct alphabets A-Z, and at the end a grouping of local proverbial rhymes, phrases, and traditional sayings arranged by the counties of Scotland.

4 volumes (.75 linear ft.)

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...