1699 Edinburgh 1ed Proper Project for Scotland IRISH Radicals Church England

1699 Edinburgh 1^ed Proper Project for Scotland IRISH Radicals Church England

 

“A Proper Project for Scotland” is a rare, 17^th-century work attributed to Alexander Shields. This, like many other works from this era, is a controversial book on the ongoing fights between Protestant and Catholics, the government and the church, and Ireland and Britain. In fact, Shields himself refers to the controversy as a plague.

“how many millions of poor inadvertent souls hath been irrecoverably lost and ruined to all intents and purposes by this most dangerously infecting plagues.”

 

This 1699 first and only known edition is incredibly rare with no other example known to exist, not only for sale, but in institutional holdings. A truly rare and remarkable history of the church and political feuds in Ireland, Scotland, and England.

 

Item number: #23678

Price: $750

 

SHIELDS, Alexander [attrib.]

 

A proper project for Scotland : To startle fools, and frighten knaves, but to make wise-men happy

 

[Edinburgh]: 1699. First edition.

 

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • 77, [3]
• References: Wing P 3673a
• Provenance: Armorial bookplate – Cranstoun of Corehouse
  • Possibly George Cranstoun, Lord Corehouse (1770–1850), who was a Scottish advocate, judge and satirist. He was also a friend of Sir Walter Scott. Motto: THOU SHALT WANT ERE I WANT
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~7.75in X 6in (19.5cm x 15cm)

 

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