Description
Somerville, James, Baron
Memorie of the Somervilles: being a history of the baronial House of Somerville. Edinburgh: Constable, 1815. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo., engraved portrait frontispiece to each volume, 9 engraved plates, folding genealogical table at the end of volume 2, without the directions to the binder in volume 1 and the errata and directions in volume 2, contemporary light blue straight grain morocco, decorated in gilt and blind, spines decorated gilt in compartments, a.e.g., light spotting of the plates. (2)
Note: Ferguson p. 165; Todd Bowden 93A. Edited by Sir Walter Scott. "[This is] one of the most curious pieces of family history ever produced to the world, on which he [Scott] laboured with more than usual zeal and diligence, from his warm affection for the noble representation of its author." (Lockhart V.14)
Provenance: With the armorial book-plates of John Borthwick of Crookston.