View source for George Douglas ca.1667/8-ca.1693

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===[[personal title::Lord]] [[name::George]] [[name::DOUGLAS]] ca.[[date of birth::1667/8|1667/1668]]-ca.[[date of death::1693]]===

[[file:George_Douglas_1.jpg|thumb|Armorial stamp of William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry (British Armorial Bindings. Found on ''Ad titulum pandectarum de iustitia, et iure, enarrationum liber'', Conte Landi Costanzo, 1549, held at the Advocates Library, Historical Collection A.82.4.)]]
[[file:George_Douglas_2.jpg|thumb|220px|Armorial stamp of William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry (British Armorial Bindings. Found on ''Commentarius ad leges tam regias, quam XII. tabularum mores, et canones, Romani iuris antiqui …'', Antonius Clarus Sylvius, 1603, held at the Advocates Library, Alva Collection 118).]]

====Biographical Note====
Lord George Douglas, youngest son of [[family::William Douglas]], the Duke of Queensberry, amassed a large collection of books, mostly on his extended Grand Tour from April 1686 to January 1693, with the assistance of his tutor [[crossreference:: Alexander Cuningham ca.1650-1730|Alexander Cuningham]]. He matriculated in [[education::Glasgow University]] in 1682 and left March 1686.

====Books==== 
His library was donated to the library of the [[organisations::Faculty of Advocates]] by his father after his death, the first major bequest to that library. It comprised over 850 sixteenth and seventeenth century books, mostly from continental publishers. Douglas had a particular 'preoccupation with [[language::Italian]] [[subject::literature]]' (Kelly, ''The Stair Society'', 164), and his library included a significant collection of translations of religious texts. The largest subject groups, in order, were [[subject::law|legal works]], Italian, [[language::Greek]] and [[language::Latin]] literature, and then books on [[subject::Classics|classical antiquities.]] W. A. Kelly discusses his library and particularly its significance in law. A manuscript catalogue of the collection is held at the National Library of Scotland, shelfmark F.R.198. 

====Characteristic Markings====
George Douglas' books generally have a donor's inscription on a front flyleaf, "'Lib: D: D: Georgij Douglas Bibliothecae Facultatis Juridicae Edinburgi Donat:'.". Douglas' father marked some of his son's books with gilt binding stamps of the Queensbury arms and his own initials (WD). Many of the books have prices and dates of purchase recorded in them in manuscript.

====Sources==== 
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* [https://armorial.library.utoronto.ca/stamp-owners/DOU009 British Armorial Bindings].
* [https://www.advocates.org.uk/faculty-of-advocates/the-advocates-library/douglas-collection "Douglas Collection,"] The Faculty of Advocates.
* [https://digital.nls.uk/catalogues/special-and-named-printed-collections/?id=555 "Douglas Collection,"] National Library of Scotland.
* W. A. Kelly, 'Lord George Douglas (1667/1668?-1693?) and his Library', ''The Stair Society, Miscellany three'' (edited by W.M. Gordon), Edinburgh, 1992, 160-172. 
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