£350
FIRST EDITION, folio, pp. xi, [iii], 718 + 10 plates. Recent half leather, yellow boards, spine divided by raised bands between gilt rules, black leather label, other compartments tooled centrally in black. A touch toned, a little light spotting. Boards just a little marked, spine tooling discoloured, rear pastedown lifted. A few marginal pencil notes.
The first edition of Douglas's magnum opus, several years in the planning, the 'most influential eighteenth-century account of the Scottish peerage' (ODNB). It was reissued in 1767 and was the foundation stone for everything that came after it, including Sir James Balfour Paul's vastly expanded nine-volume set 'Scots Peerage, Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland' in the early twentieth century.
