Memorialls; or, The Memorable Things that Fell Out Within This Island of Brittain from 1638 to 1684. Edited from the MS. by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq.

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FIRST EDITION, 4to, pp. iii-cxiv, 277, [1] + frontispiece. Contemporary biscuit calf, boards bordered with a blind roll inside double gilt rules, red morocco labels, marbled edges. A touch of spotting, frontispiece foxed and offset onto title-page. Sometime rebacked in paler calf preserving original labels, old leather somewhat scratched and a little marked. Bookplate of James McCosh of Dalry to pastedown covering Gray family armorial bookplate, ownership inscription of Marshall Carritt to reverse of frontispiece dated 1836 along with warning ‘M.C. will not lend books to any one.’