An Abridgement of the History of Scotland, from Robertson, Stuart, &c. In the Manner of Goldsmith's Abridgement of the Histories of England, Rome, and Greece. (For the Use of School.)
by ROBERTSON (William), inter alia:
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Edinburgh: Printed [by Grant and Moir] for T. Brown..., 1793. 12mo (in 6s), 175 x 94 mms., pp. [iv], 281 [282 blank], including half-title, engraved portrait of Mary Queen of Scots as frontispiece, contemporary sheepskin, black leather label; front joint slightly wormed and cracked at top and base, top of spine chipped, corners a bit worn, but a good to very good copy. This appears to be a different work from one with the same title published by Kearsley in London in 1791, though both that volume and the present end with the accession of James I to the English throne. ESTC T163469 locates copies in BL, Glasgow, NLS (2); Library Company of Philadelphia, McMaster. A work with the same title was published by Kearsley in London in 1791, in two apparently different issues: ESTC T63355, with register vii,[1],309,[1]p; and T92232, with register viii,304p. Neither issue seems to have a portrait and was advertised for sale at three shillings, while the Edinburgh imprint was three shillings and six pence.
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- An Abridgement of the History of Scotland, from Robertson, Stuart, &c. In the Manner of Goldsmith's Abridgement of the Histories of England, Rome, and Greece. (For the Use of School.)
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- ROBERTSON (William), inter alia:
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- Hardcover
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- Edinburgh: Printed [by Grant and Moir] for T. Brown..., 1793
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- history Scotland prose Scottish Enlightenment
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