Introduction: William Dunbar and the book culture of 16th-century Scotland. The Chepman and Myllar texts of Dunbar, Catherine van Buren; The Maitland Folio Manuscript as a verse anthology, Julia Boffey; Editing Dunbar - the tradition, A.S.G. Edwards; the stylistic relationship between Dunbar and Douglas, R.J. Lyall; Dunbar and his immediate heirs, Janet Hadley Williams; Dunbar, Scott and the making of poetry, Theo van Heijnsbergen; Richard Maitland and William Dunbar- textual symbiosis and poetic individuality, A.A. MacDonald; Dunbar's metrical technique, J. Derrick McClure; classifying Dunbar - modes, manners and styles, Jonathan A. Glenn; Aureation revisited - the latinate vocabulary of Dunbar's high and plain styles, John Corbett; Hale, Stern Superne and its literary background, Douglas Gray; a bibliography of the published writings of Priscilla Bawcutt, Elspeth Yeo.