[The complaynt of Scotland]
Wedderburn, Robert,approximately 1510-approximately 1557.
Lindsay, David,active 1490-1555.
Bateman, Thomas,1821-1861,former owner.StEdNL: Ry.II.h.27
Constable, Archibald,1774-1827,inscriber.StEdNL: Ry.II.h.27
Bright, H. B.,active 1845,former owner.StEdNL: Ry.II.h.27
Paton, George,1721-1807,associated name.StEdNL: Ry.II.h.27
McGowan, John,-approximately 1810?,former owner.StEdNL: Ry.II.h.27
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose,Earl of,1847-1929,former owner.StEdNL: Ry.II.h.27
Pinkerton, John,1758-1826,associated name.StEdNL: Ry.II.h.27
Chalmers, George,1742-1825,former owner.StEdNL: Ry.II.h.27
Rodd, Thomas,1796-1849,former owner.StEdNL: Ry.II.h.27
Haliburton, Robert,16th century,former owner.StEdNL: H.34.a.19
[Paris : s.n.,
ca. 1550]
Running title: The complaynt of Scotland.
Variously attributed to Wedderburn and Sir David Lindsay by British Museum Catalogue.
Place and date of imprint suggested by STC (2nd ed.)
Marginal notes.
Pages numbered on recto only.
Signatures: A⁸(-A1) B-C⁸ D⁸(D4 + X22) E⁸(-E5-7) F⁸(-F8) G⁸(-G1-4) H⁸ I⁸(-I8) K⁸(-K1-2) L-O⁸ P⁸(-P7-8) Q⁸(-Q1-5) R⁸ S⁸(-S1).
Signatures from ESTC based on British Library copy.
Various errors in signatures and pagination.
All known copies are imperfect and lack title page.
STC (2nd ed.) 22009
ESTC
For futher information on the provenance of these copies see James A.H. Murray's introduction to the Early English Text Society's reprint of 1872 from which names not recorded on the books have been gleaned.
Manuscript inscription at the head of front pastedown "Thomas Bateman 14th April 1845". Manuscript inscription on front pastedown "This copy of the Complaynt of Scotland was used in re-printing the edition 1801-- A. Constable". Pencil inscription on front pastedown "4993 Bright". Bateman armorial label on front pastedown. Tipped in before the first surviving page is part of a leaf from 1801-2 bearing a bookseller's advertisement for works printed by Constable, including the new edition of The Complaynt of Scotland "accurately reprinted from Mr Paton's copy of this uncommonly rare book". Some of the missing leaf numbers have been supplied in pencil. Manuscript inscription in the margin of the recto of leaf 54 "Patzir gu M[?]" and a cipher, possibly initials PGAM. Floral marginalia on the recto of leaf 87. Illegible manuscript inscription on the recto of leaf 102. Armorial bookplate of the 5th Earl of Rosebery on the back free endpaper. Note pasted onto the back pastedown "London Octr. 1785 Mr Pinkerton No 3 Knightsbridge--requests Mr McGowan to send him a copy of folios 39 & 137 wanting in the British Museum Compliments of Scotland."
Manuscript inscription in an apparently contemporary hand on the verso of the last leaf before the three blank leaves "[Ro]bert halibrutoune".