Male : Poet and Bookseller. Married Christian Ross in 1712. Owned a bookshop in Edinburgh and established the first lending (circulating) library in Scotland in 1726 (or more likely 1728)

Nationality : Scottish Place of Birth : Leadhills, Crawford, Lanarkshire

Date of Birth : 1686 Date of Death : 1758 Age : 72

Other Work : Wig Maker in Edinburgh 1701-18. Managed the first theatre in Edinburgh 1736-7

Education : Crawford School

1716-1718
The Battle, or Morning Interview : A Heroi-Comical Poem (1716)
Christ's Kirk on the Green (1718 for the Author at the Mercury)
Edinburgh's Address to the Country (c1718)
Scots Songs (1718)
[Also editions in 1709 & 1720]
Elegies on Maggy Johnston, John Cowper and Lucky Wood (1718)
The Scribblers Lashed (1718)
Tartana, or The Plaid (1718)

1719-1720
Content (1719)
Familiar Epistles between W --- H----- and A----- R----- (1719)
Richy and Sandy : A Pastoral on the Death of Addison (c1719)
An Epistle to W[illiam] H[amilton] (c1720)
Edinburgh's Salutation to the Marquess of Carnarvon (1720)
To Mr Law (1720)
An Ode with a Pastoral Recitative on the Marriage of James Earl of Wemyss
and Mrs Janet Charteris (1720)
Patie and Roger : A Pastoral (1720)
A Poem on the South Sea (1720)
The Prospect of Plenty : A Poem on the North-Sea Fishery (1720)
The Rise and Fall of Stocks 1720, The Satire's Comic Project (1720)

1721-1725
Poems (1721 for the author by Thomas Ruddiman, Edinburgh) (1728 Rev. Ed - 2 vols)
Robert, Richy and Sandy : A Pastoral on the Death of Prior (1721)
Fables and Tales (1722) (1730 as "Collection of Thirty Fables")
A Tale of Three Bonnets (1722)
The Fair Assembly (1723)
The Nuptials : A Masque on the Marriage of James, Duke of Hamilton and Lady Anne Cochran (1723)
Jenny and Meggy : A Pastoral, Being a Sequel to Patie and Roger (1723)
(Ed) The Tea-Table Miscellany (1723-7) - 3 vols
Health (1724)
The Monk and the Miller's Wife, or All the Parties Pleased (1724)
Mouldy-Mowdiwart, or The Last Speech of a Wretched Miser (1724)
The Poetic Sermon (1724)
On Pride : An Epistle (1724)
On the Royal Company of Archers Marching Under the Command of His Grace,
Duke of Hamilton (1724)
On Seeing the Archers Diverting Themselves (1724)
(Ed) The Ever Green : Being a Collection of Scots Poems before 1600
(1724 Thomas Ruddiman, Edinburgh) - 2 vols
The Gentle Shepherd : A Scots Pastoral Comedy (1725)
(1763 Newcastle) (1788 Foulis, Glasgow)

1726 Onwards
A Scots Ode to the British Antiquarians (1726)
Some Few Hints in Defence of Dramatic Entertainments (c1727)
An Address of Thanks from the Society of Rakes (1735)
To the Right Honourable Duncan Forbes of Culloden (1737)
(Ed) A Collection of Scots Proverbs (1737) (c1835 for Booksellers, Glasgow) - chapbook
The Vision (1748)
Poems in Two Volumes (1761 for Millar, Rivington) - 2 vols
Poems (1770 for Peter Tait, Glasgow)
A Tea Table Miscellany : A Collection of Choice Songs, Scots and English
(1775 for J Dickson, Edinburgh) (1876 Robert Forrester, Glasgow - 2 vols)
Poems : with a Memoir by George Chalmers (1800 London) - 2 vols
Curiosities of a Scots Charta Chest 1600-1800 (1897) - Edited by Mrs Atholl Forbes
The Works (1951-74) - 6 vols. Edited by Burns Martin et al

READING
W H O Smeaton : Allan Ramsay (1896)
Andrew Gibson : New Light on Allan Ramsay (1927)
Burns Martin : A Bibliography of the Writings of Allan Ramsay
(1931 Jackson, Wylie, Glasgow) - 50
Alastair Smart : The Life and Art of Allan Ramsay (1952 Routledge)