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Author:
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Robert Sibbald et al (?)
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Dicaledones & Vecturiones; The Ancient State of the Shire of FIFE, and the Quality of it, as it was under the Picts. History and Description of the Shires of Fife and Kinross; Concerning the Modern State of This Shire; What is most remarkable in Fife.
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Description:
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Book is Fair in no dust jacket. Quarter cloth binding, First Edition,
Not Known, Scotland, 1710. No date, but annotated on title page in period ink, "Printed in 1710" The Ancient State of the Shire of FIFE, and the Quality of it, as it was under the Picts. (1st part) History and Description of the Shires of Fife and Kinross (2nd part), Concerning the Modern State of This Shire (3rd Part), Concerning What is most remarkable in Fife. (4th Part). Part 3 contains also a section on St Andrews University. Text block 11-1/2 by 7 inches, rebound in possibly Victorian era quarter-cloth with brown stipple texture plain spine (slight endwear) and plain grey paper covered boards, very cornerworn but sound. Binding tight, all leaves of original text appear to be present with later endpapers. Worst flaw is that pages 121 to 148 are missing from part 4. Pages 120/149 are very grubby, implying the loss occurred in antiquity, before the text was rescued and re-bound. Also a bad flaw, is that a 2 by 2 inch chip is torn out of the bottom outer corners of pages 9-18, i.e. 5 leaves affected. There is text loss, about a quarter of the bottom twelve lines in a 51-line page are gone. Hopefully much of the sense of the missing words could be gleaned from the adjacent words - a challenge for the scholar. The rest is in average condition for an early 18th century document, paper very darkened but supple and not too yellowed. General finger smudges and dirt marks, but little foxing. Last page very frayed around edges, with owners copperplate name signed several times after "Finis". First and last few pages a bit worn at edges, rest is not too bad. Minor pencil annotations here and there. No prelims, 164pp, plus possibly later Appendix has been added, slightly finer print, 4 pages. VERY SCARCE.
Size 4to keywords: Picts Pictish Dicaledones Vecturiones Fife Kinross St Andrews University
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