Title: The family memoirs of the Rev. William Stukeley, M.D. and the Antiquarian and other Correspondence of William Stukeley, Roger & Samuel Gale, etc. Vol. II
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;">Second of 3 volumes in 8vo. pp. vi, 418 [2]. Signatures: [A]5 B-Z8 2A10. 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>