Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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BARRIE'S COLLECTION, n.phr. The title of a school-book much in vogue in the first half of the 19th c., viz. A Collection of English Prose and Verse by Alexander Barrie, Writing-Master in Edinburgh, published first in 1781 and in many subsequent editions.Ags. 1860 A. Whamond James Tacket (1895) 32:
The books were the Testament, the Bible, and Barrie's Collection.
