Note 532 — Chapter XII · ALEXANDER WILSON, 1742.

Poems of Mr. Gray. Glasgow, printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, Printers to the University. 1768. 4to. This edition was published simultaneously with Dodsley’s first collected edition of Gray’s Poems, in London; and far exceeded it in beauty of typography and execution. Writing to Beattie in 1768, Gray says, “I rejoice to be in the hands of Mr. Foulis (the famous printer of Glasgow) who has the laudable ambition of excelling the Etiennes and the Elzevirs as well in literature as in the proper art of his profession.”