Memorialls; or, The Memorable Things that Fell Out Within This Island of Brittain from 1638 to 1684. Edited from the MS. by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq.

Law, Robert

Verlag: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh, 1818

Beschreibung

FIRST EDITION, 4to, pp. iii-cxiv, 277, [1] + frontispiece. Contemporary biscuit calf, boards bordered with a blind roll inside double gilt rules, red morocco labels, marbled edges. A touch of spotting, frontispiece foxed and offset onto title-page. Sometime rebacked in paler calf preserving original labels, old leather somewhat scratched and a little marked. Bookplate of James McCosh of Dalry to pastedown covering Gray family armorial bookplate, ownership inscription of Marshall Carritt to reverse of frontispiece dated 1836 along with warning ?M.C. will not lend books to any one.? The first publication of this manuscript compiled by Robert Law (d. 1686?), a covenanting preacher. It was edited for publication by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (1781-1851), who may have produced the work as a way to attack Presbyterians, though it is now much better known for recording numerous accounts of witchcraft and other supernatural phenomena. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 4684

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Memorialls; or, The Memorable Things that ...

Verlag: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh

Erscheinungsdatum: 1818

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: 1. Auflage