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MACKAY, John. The convention of royal burghs of Scotland, From its Origin down to the Completion of the Treaty of Union between England and Scotland in 1707.

Edinburgh. Co-operative Printing Company Limited, 1884. First edition.
8vo. viii, 88pp. Original publisher's blue cloth, ruled in black, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed. Endpapers browned, ink-stamps of Newbattle Abbey College to FEP, FFEP, and verso of title page.
The first edition of a history of the Convention of the Royal Burghs of Scotland, a representative assembly which protected the privileges and pursued the interests of Scotland’s principal trading towns, the royal burghs.
£ 50.00 Antiquates Ref: 23300