Douglas Stuart Colonel (2 results)

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FIRST EDITION, occasional slight browning, pp. vi, v [-viii], 121, 8vo, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked, engraved armorial bookplate of the Duke of Buccleugh. We believe the author to have been he who raised the 99th Regiment of Foot in 1794. The subject would have been of interest to Buccleugh (family name, or one of them, Douglas), who raised a Fencible regiment in 1778. The printing is unclear in places, and the text has been corrected in MS, in one case a correction that must be authorial. 'The common people of these kingdoms, generally earn by their labor [sic], from 15 pence to half a crown per day: they are too knowing, when in their sober senses, to be induced to resign these profits arising from industry, merely for the pleasure, as they say, of wearing a red coat, and standing to be shot at for 5d a day.' BL, NLS only in ESTC; COPAC and WorldCat add UCL, and the Newberry. (ESTC T101521).…