Banffshire - Gordon Castle. The Antiquities of England and Wales was the product of Alexander Hogg who was well known as a partwork publisher. Under the claimed authorship of Henry Boswell it was issued serially from c1787-9, and subsequently made available as a complete work. The format was typically 2 (though sometimes up to 6) prints to a page, with one or two accompanying pages of descriptive text on each pair of subjects. It also included the set of English county maps by Thomas Kitchin first used in the London Magazine from 1747-54. The first Gordon Castle was built in 1479 by George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntley. It was remodelled in the late 18th century as a Scottish Baronial mansion - at its heyday one of the largest houses in Scotland. Death duties forced the sale of the estate and castle in 1938, and it fell into disrepair, but was repurchased for the family by Sir George Gordon-Lennox in the mid 20th century, and part of the old house has been restored as a more manageable family home. It is today rented out for private functions such as weddings and conferences.