(GEN) Accession no. 821: contemporary reader has written out the characters' names in ink on a preliminary blank in vol. I, and identified several of them as contemporary Scots; in addition, scattered throughout the text the reader has pencilled in the names of 16 characters who had been identified only by an initial. The 'Duchess of Ptarmigan', for instance, is identified as the then newly-wed Duchess of Gordon; M. P. Sir John Sinclair also makes a pseudonymous appearance.||(CON) Vol I; [-]1, A-I12, Contents. [-]1r Title, verso blank; A1r-I12v Text.Vol II; [-]1, A-H12, I4, Contents. [-]1r Title, verso blank; A1r-I3v Text, I4 blank.Vol III; [-]1, A-H12, I6, Contents. [-]1r Title, verso blank; A1r-I6r Text, I6v blank.Vol IV; [-]1, A-H12, I4, Contents. [-]1r Title, verso blank; A1r-I4v Text.||(REF) Block p. 206; Summers, A Gothic Bibliography, p. 495. Neither attribute an author, which is given in the ESTC; Garside, Raven, and Schˆwerling, 1814:36; Three copies (MH, ICN, NcD) in NUC||(PHY) Accession no. 821: bound in contemporary diced half calf, marbled boards, gilt rules and lettering. Endpapers watermarked 1816.