An theater of mortality : or, the illustrious inscriptions extant upon the several monuments, erected over the dead bodies, (of the sometime Honourable Persons) buried within the Gray-Friars church-yard; and other churches and burial-places within the city of Edinburgh and suburbs: collected and Englishe by R. Monteith, M. A.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Monteith, Robert, M.A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epitaphs--Scotland.

Epitaphs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([10],18,[2],19-78,[2]p. )

Other Title:

Theater of mortality

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, Printer to the Queens most Excellent Majesty, City and Colledge, Anno Dom. MDCCIV. [1704]

Notes:

Half-title (pi1) reads: An Theater of Mortality; or, the epitaphs over Scotland, in II Parts.

Order-to-print on verso of title page: Edinburgh. September. 6. 1704. The which day, the Lord Provost, Baillies, Council, and Deacons of Crafts, ordinar and Extraordinar, being conveened in council, appoints Mr Hugh Lin, ... and James Hamilton ... to revise Mr: Robert Monteith's book ... and further, recommends to the said Mr Robert Monteith, to collect ... other inscriptions, ... and print the same, ... and discharge all their printers and other persons, ... to print and sell the sameen [sic] for the space of twelve years; under penalty of confiscation, ... Extracted by George Home.

A leaf numbered 18 on the recto is inserted between D1 and D2 and contains an inscription referred to on p.18.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T147988.

OCLC:

642454191