The history of the houses of Douglas and Angus. : Wherein are discovered the most memorable passages of the kingdom of Scotland from the yeer 767, to the reign of our late Soveraign Lord King James the Sixth. / Written by Master David Hume of Godscroft.
Hume, David
Category
Books
Date
1648
Materials
Place of origin
Edinburgh
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3078815
Summary
Bibliographic description
[18], 440 p. ; fol. Brown ink splodges on pp. 67, 227. Seventeenth-century manuscript correction to text on p. 235. Provenance: armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: seventeenth-century sprinkled sheep over boards (twentieth-century reback with new blue spine label) on four raised bands, red and brown mottled edges. Old water stains to head of textblock throughout.
Makers and roles
Hume, David, author