Proposals for printing by subscription, inscribed, by permission, to the Right Honourable the Earl of Eglinton:1 An Analysis of the Scotch Celtic Language. By William Shaw, native of one of the Hebrides. The book will be elegantly printed in one volume in quarto. Price half a guinea, to be paid at the time of subscribing.

The books will be delivered in November 1777, by J. Murray, Fleet-Street, J. Donaldson, Arundel Street, Strand, and Richardson and Urquhart, No. 91, Royal Exchange, London; C. Elliot, Edinburgh, and Dunlop and Wilson, Glasgow, where subscriptions are also received.

Though the Earse2 dialect of the Celtic language has, from the earliest times, been spoken in Britain, and still subsists in the northern parts and adjacent islands, yet by the negligence of a people rather warlike than lettered, it has hitherto been left to the caprice and judgment of every speaker, and has floated in the living voice, without the steadiness of analogy or direction of rules. An Earse grammar is an addition to the stores of literature, and its author hopes for the indulgence always shewn to those that attempt to do what was never done before. If his work shall be found defective, it is at least all his own; he is not like other grammarians a compiler or transcriber; what he delivers, he has learned by attentive observation among his countrymen, who perhaps will be themselves surprized to see that speech reduced to principles, which they have used only by imitation.