James Glassford

Life

Works

• Remarks on the Constitution and Procedure of the Scottish Courts of Law, Edinburgh, 1812.
• An Essay on the Principles of Evidence, and their application to subjects of Judicial Enquiry, Edinburgh, 1812.
• Exemplum Tractatus de fontibus Juris, and other Latin Pieces of Lord Bacon. Translated by James Glassford, Esq., Advocate, Edinburgh, 1823.
• Frondes Caducæ, Chiswick, 1824.
• Letter to the Right Hon. Sir John Newport, Bart., M.P., on the subject of the Fees payable in the Courts of Justice and the Stamp Duties on Law Proceedings, London, 1824. To Sir John Newport, 1st Baronet.
• Letter to the Right Hon. the Earl of Roden on the present state of Popular Education in Ireland, London, 1829.
• Lyrical Compositions selected from the Italian Poets, with translations, Edinburgh, 1834. A second edition was published in 1846 after the author's death, greatly enlarged. Several of these translations were republished in London in 1886 in a volume of the Canterbury Poets, entitled Sonnets of Europe, edited by Samuel Waddington.
• Notes of Three Tours in Ireland in 1824 and 1826, Bristol, 1838. This work was printed for private distribution in 1831.
• Letter by the Chancellor D'Aguesseau to a Friend on the subject of the Christian Mysteries, by James Glassford, Esq., and extracted by permission from the Scottish "Christian Herald". This letter was published in Unitarianism tried by Scripture and Experience, … with a General Introduction by a Layman, London, 1840.
• Miscellanea, Edinburgh, pp. 83. This volume, printed at Edinburgh for private circulation, contained translations of Joseph Addison's Machinæ Gesticulantes, and Philip Froude's Cursus Glaciales.