[Rarebooks] fa: TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT 1746 - On the Right of the Kings of Scotland to the Crown

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George Logan: A Treatise on Government; Shewing, that the Right of the Kings of Scotland to the Crown was not Strictly and Absolutely Hereditary. Against The Earl of Cromarty, Sir George Mackenzie the King’s Advocate, Mr. John Sage stiled The Cyprianick Doctor, and the learned Antiquarian Mr. Thomas Ruddiman. Edinburgh: Printed, and sold by the Booksellers here, and at Glasgow, MDCCXLVI [1746]. FIRST EDITION; 8vo (19.5 cm), untrimmed in modern quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine label; xxxii + 182 + [4] pp. ESTC T87669.

A treatise supporting the Hanoverian succession against the Stuart pretenders, issued in the wake of the Jacobite rising of 1745. The work stirred up a small pamphlet war, triggering An Answer to the Rev. Mr. George Logan's late Treatise from Thomas Ruddiman, which in turn elicited A Second Treatise on Governnment from Logan, and so on. George Logan (1678-1755), Scottish minister and "controversialist," was an ardent anti-Jacobite who, on the approach of the rebel army towards Edinburgh in 1745, "was a warm but unsuccessful advocate for placing it in a state of defence. During the occupation of the town by the rebels his house near the Castle Hill, whence he had fled, was occupied by them as a guard-house… In person ‘a little neat man,’ his capacity was slender, and his writings subjected him to much ridicule" (DNB).

Browning and soiling to the title-page which has been laid down onto a later sheet; bumping, wear and dust-soiling to the untrimmed edges of the leaves; age-toning and occasional small spots to the later leaves; otherwise generally quite clean and crisp, firmly bound. The last two unnumbered leaves contain a translation of the charter of Robert Steward of Scotland, given in the original Latin on pp. 83-85 of the text.