first edition Hardcover
1825 · Albany
by Campbell, Lilias Dunbar
Albany: Packard, Hoffman & White, 1825. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary leather backed marbled boards. Very good. 126 pages. 12.5 x 8 cm. This Christian biography take place in Scotland during the persecution of non-conformity by the Stuarts. The adherents of Presbytery, though most numerous in the south and west of Scotland, were scattered more or less numerously over the northern counties. Lilias Dunbar was the only daughter of Mr. ---- Dunbar of Boggs, by his wife, Christian Campbell, daughter to Sir John Campbell, fifth knight of Calder. She was born about the year 1657. Rubbing to extremities, intermittent foxing and owner inscription, free front endpaper, dated June 3, 1848 "To Isabella Strang from Diana Strang." OCLC: 21968204. (Inventory #: 24268)