Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
Subtitle: being the secret history of her life, and the real causes of all her misfortunes. Containing a relation of many particular transactions in her reign ; never yet published in any collection
By: translated from the French
Contributors: Haywood, Eliza Fowler, 1693?-1756; De Peyster, J. Watts (John Watts), 1821-1907, donor; Mary, Queen of Scots Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Edition: The 2nd ed.
Publisher: Printed for D. Browne Junior ... S. Chapman ... and J. Woodman and D. Lyon ...
Published: 1726
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Queens; Biography; History
Work titles: Marie Stuart, reyne d'Escosse
Notes: "Collected from fifteen or sixteen known authors."--Introd. Long thought to have been an original work or compilation by Eliza Haywood; now identified as a translation of Pierre Le Pesant de Boisguilbert's Marie Stuart, reyne d'Escosse (see M.H. McMurran, The spread of novels, 2010, p. 83-90).

Head- and tail-pieces; initials.

English short title catalogue, t095188

Gift; John Watts de Peyster; 1888-1893.