Category Archives: Scottish

Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSA Scot was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature

Artist/Engraver Henry Raeburn

Size 28 x 22 cm
Price £12.00

 

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Tobias George Smollett 1721-1771

Scottish poet and author. He was best known for his picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, which influenced later novelists including Charles Dickens
Artist: T.Cook
Date:
Size 9.5 x 15 cms
Price £28.00

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Lord Byron 1788-1824

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron FRS, known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet, peer, and politician who became a revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence, and is considered one of the historical leading figures of the Romantic movement of his era
Artist: Westall
Date:
Size 9 x 12 cms
Price £14.00

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Walter Scott 1771-1832 novelist and poet

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSA Scot was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature.
Size 10 x 16 cms
Price £28.00

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Mungo Park 1771-1806 African Explorer

Scottish explorer of West Africa. After an exploration of the upper Niger River around 1796, he wrote a popular and influential travel book titled Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa in which he theorized the Niger and Congo merged to become the same river.
Artist: Bollinger
Date:
Size 9 x 10 cms
Price £9.50

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Hugh Blair 1718-1800

Hugh Blair FRSE was a Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician, considered one of the first great theorists of written discourse.
Artist: Raeburn
Date:1836
Size 18 x 21 cms
Price £28.00

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James Melvin 1795-1853

Teacher and an eminent Latin scholar, and ‘Latin Exercises as dictated by the late James Melvin, LL.D.’ was published in 1857 (four years after his death in 1853) by the rector of Grantown Grammar School: it was subsequently revised and re-edited by other teachers. He produced a Latin grammar in 1822, of which there were several editions. His library of over 6,000 books (mostly a fine collection of classical and mediaeval Latin literature) was left to Marischal College, Aberdeen.
Artist: Bates
Date:
Size 6 x 11.5 cms
Price £14.00

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