Description
The second edition of The General Grievances and Oppression of the Isles of Orkney and Shetland by James Mackenzie, edited by A.G. Groat and Henry Cheyne, published in 1836.
Octavo, xxxix, [4], 112, vi pp. Publisher’s cloth, title printed on label affixed to the spine. Light offsetting to endpapers. Numerous unopened leaves. Bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. Published in Edinburgh in 1836, reprinting the anonymous 1750 edition, with prefatory material, a memoir of the author, notes, and appendix.
General Grievances is a historical account of grievances in Orkney and Shetland on udal rights, weights and measures, rents, and disputes over the Pundlar Process.
