first edition
1799 · Edinburgh
by [Steuart, Henry, Sir]
Edinburgh: printed for Bell & Bradfute; and G. G. and J. Robinson, London, 1799. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 3-169, [3]; very large (15” x 38") folding genealogical table of the house of Bonkill with long tear (but no loss) in the first panel; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback; boards a little soiled, spine worn and with a few small chips, but in all a very good, largely unopened copy. On the front pastedown is the ownership signature of "Earl of Galloway." Steuart (1759-1836) was replying to Andrew Stuart's work, A Genealogical History of the Stuarts (1798); Stuart also wrote a reply to this work. Stuart had contended that (truncated)