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TYTLER, PATRICK FRASER, Life of The Admirable Crichton. With an Appendix of Original Papers.
Edinburgh: Printed for W.& C. Tait ..., 1823. Second edition, corrected and enlarged. 12mo. Frontispiece and vignette title page. 346 pp. Contemporary three-quarter calf, marbled boards. Upper joint tender, else About Fine. ΒΆ Inscribed on ffep "To Sir Henry," and on verso of title page, "To Sir Henry Ellis, &c, &c / From his friend The Author / April 1834." Sir Henry Ellis (1777-1869) was a librarian and antiquary who became head of the British Museum (1827-1856). This biography (1819) was Tytler's first published work. Patrick Fraser Tytler (1791-1849) was an accomplished historian, who assisted Sir Walter Scott in the founding of the Bannatyne Club. "...Tytler helped bring about something of a revolution in British historical method ... he insisted on the primacy of personal research in original sources, and the superiority of these to published memoirs, partisan manifestos, popular memories, and the programmatic morality of the author as the material or the organizing principle of historiography. Utterly dedicated to his task, Tytler set future historians a high example of objectivity in his painstaking scrutiny and strict evaluation of relevant documents" (DNB)
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