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Willcock, John.
The Great Marquess.
Publisher: Charle’s Scribners Sons, Elephant, Anderson, & Ferrier, New York, Edinburgh & London;
Date of Publication: 1903
Stock Code: 12977
Signed limited edition of 50 copies only, of which this is number 30. Quarto, pp., xxiii, 396. With 8 tissue-guarded lithograph plates, as called for. Printed on laid paper. Publisher’s red beaded cloth, arms of the Marquess of Argyll gilt to upper board, titles gilt to spine. Upper edge gilt, lower edge and fore-edge uncut. Corners lightly bumped, very light soiling to edges of boards and to spine, joints slightly worn. Contents clean and bright. A very good copy. Rare biography of Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll (1607-1661). Argyll was de facto head of the Scottish government in the 1640s and 50s, during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Argyll was leader of the Covenanters movement, and a significant figure in the Scottish Reformation. After the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, the Marquess stood trial for treason. This book reproduces, for the first time in print, the packet of letters sent from Argyll to George Mock, 1st Duke of Albemarle, which decisively demonstrated Argyll’s collaboration with the Cromwell Proctectorate, and guaranteed his execution. £150.00