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[Johnston, Sir Archibald, Lord Wariston]
The Protestation of the Generall Assemblie of the Church of Scotland
£1,134
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
and of the Noblemen, Barons, Gentlemen, Borrowes, Ministers and Commoners. Subscribers of the Covenant, lately renewed, made in the high Kirk, and at the Mercate Crosse of Glasgow, the 28, and 29. of November 1638. Glasgow: George Anderson, 1638. First edition, 4to, A-B4, [15] pp. (final page blank), c.1900 tan crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, woodcut demon vignette to title-page, woodcut headpiece and factotum to A2, type-ornament tailpiece to B4, small worm-track to foot of gutter [STC 22047: this is one of this copies with ‘quire A erroneously perfected’ with the outer form of the corrected issue STC 22047.5, so that the A2 r. has the catchword ‘intruded’ but A2 v. begins ‘of’]
Provenance
The Library of a Scottish Gentleman
Footnote
First and only edition of the earliest known book or pamphlet to be printed in Glasgow. The printer George Anderson had previously worked in Edinburgh before being invited to Glasgow by the town council in 1638. Sir Archibald Johnston, co-author of the National Covenant with William Henderson, visited Glasgow in July 1638 in order to obtain support from the the principal of the university and other leading figures in the city.