A short historical and genealogical account of the royal family of Scotland from K. Kenneth II, who conquer'd the Picts; and of the surname of Stewart, from the first founder of that name. Containing a short account of the lives of the kings of Scotland from that period; and the origins and descent of all the families of the name of Stewart that are now extant, and the most considerable of those that are extinct. To which is prefix'd a genealogical and chronological tree of the royal family, and the name of Stewart. By Duncan Stewart, M.A.
Duncan Stewart M.A
Category
Books
Date
1739
Materials
Place of origin
Scotland
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3030808
Summary
Bibliographic description
vi,214,[2]p.,1 leaf of plates : geneal. table (folded); 4to (22cm). Historic shelfmark on bookplate "L.C.6", amended to "L.H.6." Extensive annotations and corrections in an 18th-century hand; additional notes pasted in and loosely inserted. Provenance: Inscribed on upper flyleaf "John Davidson"; nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of Sir G. Warrender, Baronet [i.e.Sir George Warrender of Lochend, 4th Baronet (1782-1849)]; upper cover stamped with the arms of George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (1758-1833); twentieth-century armorial bookplate (dated 1922) set in a landscape with De Lazlo's portrait of Edith Lady Londonderry in the uniform of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in a medallion above, lettered at the bottom of the plate "Edith Helen Marchioness of Londonderry. D.B.E." . Motto in Scottish Gaelic over portrait ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]) [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin, m. in 1899 Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf, gilt armorial stamp on upper cover, brown leather spine label, lettered in gilt "History of the Stewart".
Makers and roles
Duncan Stewart M.A