Lamb william lyall roderick (4 risultati)

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xxxviii, 196 pages ; 22 cm. Notes: Bibliography: pages xxxv-xxxviii. Subjects: Scots language Texts; Scotland Politics and government 16th century; Scotland Foreign relations England; Early works to 1800; Scotland Politics and government 1542-1603; Scotland History Mary Stuart, 1542-1567 Sources; Scotland Political events 1500-1549. 1 Kg.…

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xxxviii, 196 pages ; 22 cm. Notes: Bibliography: pages xxxv-xxxviii. Subjects: Scots language Texts; Scotland Politics and government 16th century; Scotland Foreign relations England; Early works to 1800; Scotland Politics and government 1542-1603; Scotland History Mary Stuart, 1542-1567 Sources; Scotland Political events 1500-1549. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 8vo, pp,xxxviii,196, gilt titled green cloth, unclipped dust-jacket.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo xxxviii + 196pp., notes, glossary, 'This is a previously unnoticed mid-sixteenth century Scots prose text by William Lamb, parson of Conveth and a Senator of the College of Justice. A reply to the English propaganda campaign in support of their war with Scotland (1542 - 9) and an interesting companion piece to the well known Complaynt of Scotland, the manuscript contains a detailed discussion of the English claim to superiority and of a number of more specific grievances. It is of considerable linguistic significance, especially as the only known manuscript is apparently nearly contemporary with the composition of the work'.…