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The Lyon in Mourning or a Collection of Speeches, Letters, Journals Etc., Relative to the Affairs of Prince Charles Edward Stewart - 3 Volumes

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Reprint. 1975. Reprint in three volumes. xiii, 382pp. and a facsimile of the original title-page; x, [i], 380pp.; xviii, [i], 416pp. This is a collection of papers, correspondence, extracts from journals, etc. relating to Prince Charles Edward Stuart at the time of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. It was formed between 1746 and 1775 by Robert Forbes (1708-1775), later Bishop of Ross and Caithness, who was an ardent Jacobite, and was taken prisoner at Stirling before the rebellion started. While in prison he collected and wrote down the narratives of his fellow prisoners who had played an active part in the affair; and after his release in 1746, he continued to record and confirm the stories of many who had participated in the '45. The work consisted of ten volumes in manuscript, dated from 1747 to 1775, and the first extracts were published in 1834 under the title of Jacobite Memoirs, by Robert Chambers, from the originals in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh. The present complete edition, edited from the original Manuscript and with a Preface by Henry Paton, was first published in 1895. The three volumes are uniformly bound in the original dark blue boards with gold titling on the spines. The cases of the book are in very good condition with light bumping to the bottom of the spines. The contents are tight and clean with no inscription. Volume 3 has some bumping and creasing across the top corner of pages 203 to 260 that is light near the start and end of these pages but fairly heavy and noticeable to pages 211 to 228. The leaf containing pages 175 and 176 in volume 3 has a hole of about 3/4" x 1 1/4" near the bottom edge that affects some of the words on the bottom three lines, and the missing words have been written in pencil on the bottom margin. The dustwrappers have shelf wear with some light soiling and rubbing to the spine corners. There are two tears of about 1/4" with creasing between them on the top rear edge of the wrapper for volume 1 and a tear of about 1/4" on the top front spine corner of the wrapper for volume 3. The flaps have not been price clipped although there is a small stain over the printed price where a later price sticker has probably been removed. PLEASE NOTE: This is a heavy set and extra postage will apply. Nº de ref. del artículo: gScotHist36

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