Scottish kings : a revised chronology of Scottish history1005-1625. With notices of the principal events, tables of regnal years, pedigrees, tables, calendars etc.
Dunbar, Archibald H
Category
Books
Date
1906
Materials
Place of origin
Edinburgh
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215459
Summary
Bibliographic description
Second edition. xix, [1], 440 p., plates : tables, maps (col.) ; 22cm. Provenance: Inscribed on upper flyleaf: "Presented to the editor of The Spectator [i.e. John St Loe Strachey (1860-1927)] for his reference library by Archibald H. Dunbar. The purport of this book is explained in the preface". On upper pastedown: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (dated 1922) with portrait: "Edith Helen Marchioness of Londonderry. D.B.E." [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin, m. in 1899 Charles 7th Marquess of Londonderry]. Motto in Scottish Gaelic over portrait ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]). Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover and spine. Gilt edges. Text-block sagging.
Makers and roles
Dunbar, Archibald H