An essay of the nature and actions of the subterranean (and for the most part,) invisible people, heretofoir going under the name of elves, faunes, and fairies, or the lyke among the low-country Scots, as they are described by those who have the second sight, and now to occasion further inquiry, collected and compared, by a circumspect inquirer residing among the Scottish-Irish in Scotland. With an appendix, consisting of extracts from A treatise on second sight, by Theophilus Insulanus. [Second title: Secret commonwealth, or, A treatise displaying the chiefe curiosities as they are in use among diverse of the people of Scotland to this day; - singularities for the most part peculiar to that nation
Robert Kirk