The facsimile of the title page includes two handwritten lines between
“Lord Deskfoord” and the author’s name:
The last Earl of Findlater who died _1812_ without issue
Title claimed by Sir W^m Ogilvie Bart of Carnousie,
who died Feb 20^th _1861_
The two lines were probably written at different times: the first uses
long “s” while the second had to have been written in or after 1861. The
underlined year “1812” is an error for 1811 (October). The William
Ogilvie (more often spelled Ogilvy) of the second line was born in 1810,
so his claim to the title cannot have been immediate. He does not appear
to have been related to the book’s author.