Philip Rollo; or the Scottish Musketeers Vol. 1 (of 2)

Excerpt from Philip Rollo Vol. 1 of 2: Or the Scottish Musketeers. At a sale of the effects of an eminent antiquary lately deceased it was our happiness and good fortune to become the possessor of a certain little MS. volume closely written in a neat small hand of the 17th century. It is very thick contains nearly a thousand pages is bound in black leather and is fastened by two brass clasps. On the title-page was written The Storie of my Lyffe concludit to this year 1660.. On examining our literary and antiquarian treasure which we did with ardour we found that it was the adventures of a Scottish gentleman of that stirring period indicated by the date who had served for a time as a soldier of fortune in the armies of Denmark. We found the book interesting from the glimpses of wild adventure hair-breadth escapes high military courage and raciness it exhibited; thus the more we read the more pleased did we become.. Philip Rollo for such was the name of the writer seemed to be beside us relating his own startling adventures; and we were upon the point of handing over the MS. to our enterprising friends of the Bannatyne Club when lo! we discovered that there were two serious gaps in it.. About the Publisher. Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.