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Very Good. 2 Volumes. Folio. xiv, 759p, 8 pl.; xiii, 752p., 9 pl. Bound in modern 3/4 red leather. Red boards. Gilt lettering on black spine labels. 5 raised bands. Tight bindings and covers. Pages tanned with contemporary pencil underlining and notation. Chipping and loss to some page extremities. All 17 plates called for present. Holes p. 221-8, 363, 589. Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, 6th Baronet was a notable genealogist responsible for his major works on the Scottish nobility. No substantive Scottish peerage had appeared since George Crawfurd's in 1716, until Douglas issued in his first edition of The Peerage of Scotland in 1764 as a one folio volume. In his preface Douglas stated that he had sent for corrections and additions a manuscript copy of each account of a peerage to the contemporary holder of it. His "Baronage of Scotland, containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Gentry of that Kingdom, " appeared after his death in 1798, as one volume, the second volume never realized. In 1813 was issued the latest and standard edition of Douglas's chief work, "The Peerage of Scotland, Second Edition, Revised and Corrected by John Philip Wood, Esq., with Engravings of the Arms of the Peers." Prefixed to it is a list of Scottish noblemen and gentlemen who furnished the editor with documentary and other information. Wood incorporated in it a number of corrections of the first edition made by Lord Hailes, though some of his unpublished critical comments were given by James Maidment.
