Peter Buchan
(1790–1854)

Scottish editor, publisher, and collector of ballads and folktales

Peter Buchan

Works edit

  • The Recreation of Leisure Hours, being Songs and Verses in the Scottish Dialect (1814)
  • Annals of Peterhead (1819)
  • Treatise proving that Brutes have souls and are immortal (1824)
  • Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland, hitherto unpublished, with explanatory notes (1828), in 2 vols.
  • The Peterhead Smugglers of the Last Century ; or, William and Annie, an original melodrama, in three acts (1834)
  • The Eglinton Tournament and Gentlemen Unmasked (1839)
  • An Account of the Chivalry of the Ancients (1840)
  • Scottish Traditional Versions of Ancient Ballads (1845)
  • Man—Body and Soul-as he was, as he is, and as he shall be (1849)
  • An Historical Account of the Ancient and Noble Families of Keiths, Earls Marischals of Scotland (n. d.)

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