[Rarebooks] fs-Fraud and the Dormant Peerage Office

[Joe Luttrell]

May we offer,

BANKS, T.C. and Ephraim Lockhart.  A Disquisition on the Right
of Jurisdiction in Peerage Successions, Particularly the Peerage of
Scotland; Contained in Letters to the Right Honourable the Lord
K-------: With an Appendix. Second Edition [etc.].  James Ridgway,
169, Piccadilly, London, 1830.  Modern patterned crimson cloth,
gilt, ex-library, but a clean copy; 118 pages. [72088 BLS1002]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=72088
                                                          $ 350.00

An uncommon part of the curious career of the Inner Templar T.C.
Banks, who established a Dormant Peerage Office and mixed real
scholarship with the defense of flimsy and even fraudulent (as
here) peerage claims; five copies in OCLC, none in England.

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