Lot 295
Logan, James and Robert Ronald McIan.
The Drambuie Collection Part II
Auction: 27 January 2006 at 10:00 GMT
Description
The Clans of the Scottish Highlands, illustrated by appropriate figures displaying their Dress, Tartans, Arms, Armorial Insignia and Social Occupations. London: Ackermann, 1845-47, 2 volumes, large folio, large paper copies, list of subscribers, 2 lithographed frontispieces of heraldic devices and 72 hand-coloured lithographed plates, tissue guards, contemporary green morocco gilt armorial binding, sides panelled in gilt with floral sprays, Scottish coat-of-arms, broadswords and shields, spines gilt, g.e., one plate detached with some loss of blank margin, three plates with marginal tear repaired, some plates with scattered light spotting, joints lightly rubbed
Footnote
Note: A finely bound copy of the most splendid and costly of all the nineteenth century colour plate books devoted to the Scottish clans, with fine hand-coloured lithographs after paintings by R.R. McIan. The work, dedicated to Queen Victoria, was published in 1845 to commemorate the 1745 uprising and available only by subscription.
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