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Lot 467

MACNEILL (HECTOR)]
Town Fashions, or Modern Masters Delineated, a Satirical Dialogue; with James and Mary, a Rural Tale,

16 – 31 August 2011, 11:00 BST
Edinburgh

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The poet Hector Macneill (1746-1818), born near Roslin, settled in Edinburgh in 1799, after a sojourn in Jamaica. Here he "became a well-known figure on the literary scene" (ODNB) writing this satire on the behaviour of Edinburgh's inhabitants. "The author's principal object, is not so much to condemn an unparalelled system of rapid luxury in our Scottish Metropolis, as a general system of ostentatious shew and imitation which has pervaded all ranks and descriptions of society" (introduction).

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