The History of The Scottish Stage, From its First Establishment to The Present Time; with A Distinct Narrative of Some Recent Theatrical Transactions. The Whole Necessarily Interspersed with Memoirs of his Own Life, by John Jackson, Ten Years Manager of The Theatre Royal of Edinburgh.

Edinburgh: Printed for Peter Hill, 1793. 8vo, pp. [3]-16, 424, 46, [2]. Half-title discarded. Old half calf, green patterned paste-paper boards, spine divided by gilt rules, second compartment dyed black and lettered in gilt direct. A little spotting. A little rubbed, extremities worn, leather surface lost from foot of spine, joints sometime repaired, hinges relined. Ownership inscription of W. Chisholme to title-page. A seemingly unrecorded variant of a polemical and idiosyncratic history with a complicated production history. ESTC records 3 variants: N48, with text on pp. 295-6 present and a full appendix with documents numbered 1-25; T36525, with text on pp. 295-6 present and a shorter appendix omitting items 18-22; and T141375, with text on pp. 295-6 omitted and the same shorter appendix omitting items 18-22. This copy could be described as the missing variant from the above list, having the fuller appendix with all documents present but omitting the text on pp. 295-6. Copies with the full text on pp. 295-6 survive in greatest numbers, ESTC listing 62 holdings (split between full and expurgated appendices), against only three with the text omitted, all of those having the expurgated appendix. Not in ESTC.