The family memoirs of the Rev. William Stukeley, M.D. and the Antiquarian and other Correspondence of William Stukeley, Roger & Samuel Gale, etc. Vol. III

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Third of 3 volumes in 8vo. pp. xiii, [1], 551, [1]. Signatures: [A]9 B-Z8 2A-2I8 2J4. 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. 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. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.