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Author: Forbes, William

Biography:

FORBES, William (fl 1798-99)

From Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, but no other biographical information has been located. He is to be distinguished from William Forbes “late schoolmaster at Petercoulter, Aberdeenshire” whose Dominie Depos’d is not included in this database because it was first published before 1770.

 

Books written (5):

The Christian Soldier in Complete Armour, Or, A Defence of Great Britain, Against Its Many Enemies, Both At Home and Abroad.

[no place]: 1798

The Christian Soldier in Complete Armour, or a Defence of Great Britain against Its Many Enemies, Both at Home and Abroad. To Which is Prefixed a Remarkable Prophecy, found under a wall at Paris.

3rd edn. [no place]: printed for the author, 1799

Extempore Verses on Dining with Lord Daer . . . . And the Dominie Depos'd . . . ..

Glasgow: Stewart and Meikle, [1799?]

The Inventory . . . .The Dominie Depos'd, (Concluded) . . . ..

Glasgow: Stewart and Meikle, [1799?]

The High Anointed Cherub . . . ..

Glasgow: printed by A. Adam, 1800