[20] Ante, p. 29.
[21] Reliques of Robert Burns, p. 434.
[22] The reference is to Burns. Cromek’s quotation is from Grahame’s Birds of Scotland, vol. ii. p. iv.
[23] Works of Robert Burns. Kilmarnock edition, vol. ii. p. 286.
[24] Works of Robert Burns. Edinburgh, 1877–79, vol. i. p. 16.
[25] There were several chap-books with this title in circulation. We have before us one bearing the same name, published in Edinburgh in 1764; and another, The Accomplished Courtier, also issued in Edinburgh in the same year, but they are both totally different from the Stirling publication.
[26] Humorous Chap-Books of Scotland, p. 151.
[27] Humorous Chap-Books of Scotland, p. 151.
[28] Mr. John Ashton, in his Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century, a work dealing exclusively with the chap literature of England, traces what appears to be an original edition of Simple Simon, ‘printed and sold in Aldermary Church Yard, London.’ The publishers there, he informs his readers in his introduction, were William and Cluer Dicey, originally of Northampton, who started a branch of their business in London subsequent to 1720.
[29] The Glasgow Athenæum, August 10, 1850 (No. 2), p. 18.