"RITSON'S BIBLIOGRAPHIA SCOTICA, 2 vols. Unpublished.
"[Star symbol] A very Valuable Account of Scottish Poets and
Historians, drawn up with great care and indefatigable Research by
Ritson. The Work was intended for Publication. These Volumes were
purchased at the sale of Ritson's Library by Messrs. Longman and
Constable for Forty-three Guineas, and presented to George
Chalmers, Esq., who had edited Sir D. Lyndsay's Works for them
gratuitously."
My catalogue of Chalmers's library, unfortunately, has not the prices or
purchasers' names; and the firm of the Messrs. Evans being no longer in
existence, I have no means of ascertaining the present locality of the
above-mentioned MSS.