INVENTORY #102728
The Peerage of Scotland
DOUGLAS, Robert, Sir and WOOD, John Philip
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Publication Info
- Publisher: Printed by George Ramsay and Co.
- Edition: Second Edition
- Date Published: 1813
- Place Published: Edinburgh
- ISBN: n/a
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- Condition: Very Good
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
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Title continued: from Their Origin to the Present Generation: Collected from the Public Records, Antient Chartularies, the Charters and Other Writings of the Nobility, Works of our Best Historians, &c. (2 vols.). 759, xiii, 752, xiii p. Vol. 1, 9 plates of crests; Vol. 2, 8 plates of crests. Rebound. Occasional minor foxing and smudges; Vol. 1, tear p 483; Vol. 2, tear tp, 147, 491. Holes p. 221-8, 363, 589. Sir Robert Douglas, the 6th Baronet of Glenbervie, was a noted genealogist who wrote Baronage of Scotland, a well regarded piece of research in a time when information relating to the ruling class was not often made available. It was updated and expanded into these two volumes by John Philip Wood roughly half a century later.