Strange and Whimsical Performances: William Smellie, Alexander Gillies, and the Paratexts to A Treatise of Modern Faulconry
Abstract:James Campbell's A Treatise of Modern Faulconry appeared in 1773, accompanied by an anonymous Preface and a long, anonymous Introduction. The Preface ignores the Treatise and offers a burlesque of the first volume of Lord Monboddo's The Origin and Progress of Language; the Introduction offers fantastic tales o...