The Peerage of Scotland: Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, from their Origin to the present Generation: Collected from the public Records, Antient Chartuleries, the Charters and other Writings of the Nobility, Works of our best Historians &c. Revised, corrected, with a Continuation to the Present Period by John Philip Wood, Esq. With Engravings of the Arms of the Peers.

Second Edition. c 35 x 24 cm. Vol.1: xii, (2), 759 pages, xiv [Index], Plates 1-9 / Vol.2: iv, 752 pages, xiii [Index], Plates 10 - 17. Contemporary half calf. Spine label with gilt title. Good condition. Binding seriously worn and all four boards detached. Text block and spine solid. Age darkened and dust dulled. A very good reading copy or candidate for rebinding. See images. Provenance: From the Library of Kenneth Nicholls. Kenneth W. Nicholls (1934 - 25 May 2025) was an Irish academic and historian, notable for his work on the late medieval and early modern period. He was the subject of a festschrift in 2014. Nicholls worked at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies for a period during the 1960s. He was a member of staff of the history department in University College Cork until his retirement in 2004. He came to national and international prominence as the author of Gaelic and Gaelicised Ireland in the Middle Ages, first published in 1972, and reprinted in 2003. He was particularly regarded among his peers for his deep knowledge of late medieval and early modern historical sources in the Irish, Latin, French and English languages.…