The edition is the outcome of a fruitful interdisciplinary collaboration between Newman and McGuinness, experts in the fields of Scottish literary studies and Scottish music respectively. The result of meticulous archival and collections based research, it represents The Gentle Shepherd in all its textual and musical variance. [...] With this edition of The Gentle Shepherd, Newman and McGuinness have taken the first step towards this series’ goal to ‘take [Ramsay] seriously as an editor and literary innovator as well as an author’ and to ‘help him reclaim the central place in the development of the literature of Scotland which is his due’ (p. xvi).
- Kwinten Van De Walle, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society