The family memoirs of the Rev. William Stukeley, M.D. and the Antiquarian and other Correspondence of William Stukeley, Roger & Samuel Gale, etc. Vol. III
Publisher: Published for the Society by Andrews & Co.; Whittaker & Co., Bernard Quaritch; William Blackwood and Sons; Printed by William Harrison
Published: 1887
Place of publication: Durham (Eng.); London; Edinburgh; Ripon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 586
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Third of 3 volumes in 8vo. pp. xiii, [1], 551, [1]. Signatures: [A]9 B-Z8 2A-2I8 2J4. Includes half title page with emblem of the Surtees Society. Illustrations, plates. Surtees Society Publications, nos. 73, 76, and 80. Preface signed by William Collings Lukis.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Memoirs and correspondence of the antiquarian, physician, and clergyman William Stukeley (1687-1765), who, later in life, became instrumental in Britain’s scholarly acceptance of his correspondent Charles Bertram’s forged “Britannicarum gentium historiae antiquae scriptores tres” (1757). Stukeley had also been duped by James Macpherson’s Ossian poems.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103192" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>