Author: Spalding, John.
Title: THE HISTORY OF THE TROUBLES AND MEMORABLE TRANSACTIONS IN SCOTLAND AND ENGLAND, From MDCXXIV to MDCXLV.
Description: Bannatyne Club , 1827-9. 2 vols. Sm. 4to. [vi] + ix + xxxiii + 360pp. + vii. + [iv] + xxvi + 324pp + 27pp. Title page device, 17 engraved plates, folding plan on 2 sheets, 2 text ills., 1 leaf of facsimile. Light browning, marbled e.ps. and edges, inner blind dentelles, contemporary blind embossed pigskin, minor marking, rebacked with much of damaged spines laid down, gilt lettering and blind detail to spines. ¶ Ex.-libris William Gordon Esq. of Fyvie; Ex.-libris John Hely-Hutchinson Chippenham Lodge Ely (1881–1955), celebrated bibliophile whose fine collection of historic bindings was sold by Sotheby’s in 1956. Edited by James Skene. Spalding, John (b. 1624?, d. in or after 1669), historian ‘... Spalding provides a detailed account of the impact of civil war in the north-east, unrivalled by surviving sources for any other part of Scotland, and his rough, unpolished chronicle of events compensates for lack of sophistication by giving a sense of immediacy. In general the closer events were to Aberdeen, the more reliable Spalding's accounts of them are, though occasionally he widens his focus by inserting the texts of documents relating to national affairs. The manuscripts that survive end in 1644, but the text originally continued until at least 1647 ...’ ODNB

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