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First page of the dedication letter in the second edition of The Present State of Nova Scotia, addressed to Lord John Sheffield.

The front page of The Present State of Nova Scotia as it appears in the second edition printed in 1787. Contains the publication information.

Evidence of a flower having been pressed in the pages of this copy of S. Hollingsworth's The Present State of Nova Scotia.

Second page of the dedication letter in the second edition of The Present State of Nova Scotia, addressed to Lord John Sheffield.

The table of contents as it appears in the second edition of Hollingsworth's The Present State of Nova Scotia.

The first page of the introduction in the second edition of Hollingsworth's The Present State of Nova Scotia. 

An example of footnotes in Hollingsworth's The Present State of Nova Scotia featuring two different symbols. 

Water damage on the front paper of Hollingsworth's The Present State of Nova Scotia.

The errata page as it appears in the second edition of Hollingsworth's The Present State of Nova Scotia.

A visual reference of the size of S. Hollingsworth's The Present State of Nova Scotia

William Creech's pen name, as it appears in Edinburgh Fugitive Pieces.

The entry for The Present State of Nova Scotia in William Creech's 1793 bookseller's catalogue.

The conditions placed upon a call for subscriptions, issued by publishers in both England and Scotland circa 1789.

The portrait of Robert Burns included in the 1788 Edinburgh edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect published by William Creech. 

The title page of the 1788 Edinburgh edition of Robert Burns' Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect.

The publication information page of William Creech's 1788 Edinburgh edition of Robert Burns' Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect.

The title page of The History of Edinburgh published by William Creech in 1779.

The publication information as it appears in the 1779 printing of The History of Edinburgh by Hugo Arnot.

The errata page of William Creech's 1779 printing of The History of Edinburgh, including instructions to the bookbinder.

The title page of William Creech's 1782 printing of Account of the Institution and Progress of the Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland.