By James Hogg, The Ettrick Shepherd was first published in Edinburgh in February 1807 by Archibald Constable and Co. and in London by John Murray.
[3] For The Mountain Bard he revised his earlier texts, with input from Walter Scott, making them more refined for a polite readership.
[4] The first edition of The Mountain Bard contains an introductory memoir and 21 poems, ten of them 'Ballads, in Imitation of the Antients', and the other eleven 'Songs Adapted to the Times' (though only seven of them are actually songs).
The third edition was published in Edinburgh on 19 February 1821 by Oliver & Boyd as The Mountain Bard; consisting of Legendary Ballads and Tales.
'[9] The reviews of the 1821 volume[10] were mostly much less favourable than those of the first edition, Hogg's expanded memoir with its disconcertingly frank account of his experience of literary Edinburgh coming in for particular adverse criticism from the Scottish periodicals.