Lot 155
Stuart, John Sobieski Stolberg & Charles Edward
The Costume of the Clans
Estimate: £300 - £500
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
with Observations upon the Literature, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce of the Highlands and Western Isles during the Middle Ages; and on the Influence of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries upon their Present Condition. Edinburgh: John Menzies, 1845. Large folio (55.6 x 40cm), contemporary red half morocco, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 165 pp., etched additional title-page, 36 plates, most of them hand-coloured etchings of Highland costume (frequently heightened in gum arabic), the remainder including tinted lithographs of antiquities, tissue-guards, errata leaf to rear, bookplate of Sir Thomas Dawson Brodie, 1st Baronet (1832-1896), Scottish lawyer, occasional spotting including to etched and letterpress titles, marginal tide-mark to tinted lithographic plates [not in Abbey Life]
Footnote
A notorious work of forgery and fantasy by the impostor Stuart brothers, Englishmen whose real surname was Allen, but who presented themselves (in good faith or otherwise) as grandsons of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, and set about producing works revealing the wealth, and strictly Catholic and Celtic character, of Scottish culture in the middle ages.
