<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;"><b>Full title:</b> A critical essay on the Ancient Inhabitants Of the Northern Parts of Britain, or Scotland. Containing An Account of the Romans, of the Britains betwixt the Walls, of the Caledonians or Picts, and particulary of the Scots. With An Appendix of ancient MS. Pieces. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. By Thomas Innes, M. A. </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;"><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></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 2 volumes in 8vo. f. [1] (blank), [2], pp. 401-839, [1], f. [1] (blank), [1] (plates, folded). Calf. Boards with double gilt filets, gilded spine on 5 bars, edges spread in red. Signature of G.B. Macpherson Frank and of Tho[ma]s Carnegy. Printer's device on each title page. Contains folded genealogical tables.</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;">The first detailed analysis of Hector Boece’s ‘Scotorum historia,’ (Paris, 1527; see Bib# 707970/Fr# 215.1 in this collection for the 1821 reprint of the 1536 translation) in which Thomas Innes identifies the major deficiencies of Boece’s narrative and shows that he had manipulated his material and invented manuscript sources. See ESTC, citation T146374.</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/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039110919707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>