Riddell, John Various works by the distinguished authority on Scottish peerage law, James Riddell (1785 - 1862), including: The Salt-foot controversy, with a reply, and some remarks on the present state of the Lyon Office. [Edinburgh, n.p., 1818]. First edition in book form, 8vo., original paper boards, printed paper labels, Riddell's first published book and one of a hundred copies; Vindication of the "Clanronalld of Glengary" against attacks made upon them in the Inverness Journal. Edinburgh: Tait, 1821. First edition, engraved title-page, folding table, modern cloth, fore-edges uncut; Remarks upon Scotch peerage law as connected with certain points in the late case of the Earldom of Devon. Edinburgh: Clark, 1833. First edition, 8vo., contemporary blind and gilt tooled calf, with the armorial book-plate of the Rt. Hon. Lord Gray; Tracts legal and historical, with other antiquarian matter chiefly relative to Scotland. Edinburgh: Clark, 1835. First edition, 8vo., modern cloth, inscribed from the author to Lord Lindsay on the title-page; Inquiry into the law and practice in Scottish peerages before and after the Union. Edinburgh: Clark, 1842. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo., original cloth; Abstract of the case of James Earl of Crawford and Balcarres. etc. claiming the original Dukedom of Montrose, created in 1488. London: Clowes, 1850. 8vo., folding tables, half calf, marbled boards; Comments in refutation of pretensions advanced for the first time, and statements in a recent work "The Stirlings of Keir and their family papers." Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1960. First edition, 4to., original cloth, printed paper label, covers a little stained, limited to 300 copies "for private circulation among members and friends of the Drumpellier Family, and some Public Libraries"; The Riddell papers: a catalogue of the annotated books & manuscripts of the late John Riddell. Edinburgh: n.p., 1863. First edition, 12mo., original photographic portrait of Riddell mounted at the front, modern green buckram, one of fifty copies for private circulation. A pencilled note at the front attributes the compilation to James Maidment. (9) Note: Riddell " loved genealogical research for its own sake, and Sir Walter Scott who alludes in the ‘Lay of the Last Minstrel’ (canto i.) to ‘Ancient Riddell's fair domain,’ described him as the only man from whose exclusive store of learning could be gathered an adequate notion of the state of society in Scotland in the age preceding the Reformation."
Riddell, John Various works by the distinguished authority on Scottish peerage law, James Riddell (1785 - 1862), including: The Salt-foot controversy, with a reply, and some remarks on the present state of the Lyon Office. [Edinburgh, n.p., 1818]. First edition in book form, 8vo., original paper boards, printed paper labels, Riddell's first published book and one of a hundred copies; Vindication of the "Clanronalld of Glengary" against attacks made upon them in the Inverness Journal. Edinburgh: Tait, 1821. First edition, engraved title-page, folding table, modern cloth, fore-edges uncut; Remarks upon Scotch peerage law as connected with certain points in the late case of the Earldom of Devon. Edinburgh: Clark, 1833. First edition, 8vo., contemporary blind and gilt tooled calf, with the armorial book-plate of the Rt. Hon. Lord Gray; Tracts legal and historical, with other antiquarian matter chiefly relative to Scotland. Edinburgh: Clark, 1835. First edition, 8vo., modern cloth, inscribed from the author to Lord Lindsay on the title-page; Inquiry into the law and practice in Scottish peerages before and after the Union. Edinburgh: Clark, 1842. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo., original cloth; Abstract of the case of James Earl of Crawford and Balcarres. etc. claiming the original Dukedom of Montrose, created in 1488. London: Clowes, 1850. 8vo., folding tables, half calf, marbled boards; Comments in refutation of pretensions advanced for the first time, and statements in a recent work "The Stirlings of Keir and their family papers." Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1960. First edition, 4to., original cloth, printed paper label, covers a little stained, limited to 300 copies "for private circulation among members and friends of the Drumpellier Family, and some Public Libraries"; The Riddell papers: a catalogue of the annotated books & manuscripts of the late John Riddell. Edinburgh: n.p., 1863. First edition, 12mo., original photographic portrait of Riddell mounted at the front, modern green buckram, one of fifty copies for private circulation. A pencilled note at the front attributes the compilation to James Maidment. (9) Note: Riddell " loved genealogical research for its own sake, and Sir Walter Scott who alludes in the ‘Lay of the Last Minstrel’ (canto i.) to ‘Ancient Riddell's fair domain,’ described him as the only man from whose exclusive store of learning could be gathered an adequate notion of the state of society in Scotland in the age preceding the Reformation."
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