Lot 154
Rebellion in Scotland - Gentleman's Magazine
Jacobite, Stuart, and Scottish Applied Arts
Auction: 13 May 2015 at 12:00 BST
Description
Over 300pp. of articles and excerpts, mainly from The Gentleman's Magazine, chronicling the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, inset into each leaf, including the magazine's Account of the Battle of Culloden from volume xvi (1746) and A short account of the trials of the Manchester rebels from July 1746, also containing numerous engravings: Earl of Kilmarnock aged 42; Lord Balmerino aged 58; Manner of the execution; Scotch pride humbled or the rebellion crushed 1745; Map of the counties adjacent to Carlisle shewing the route of the rebels; William Duke of Cumberland; and a miniature of George II; battle plans of the Battles of Falkirk, Gladsmuir, the Battle of Culloden House; a few relevant manuscript notes, all neatly presented in full morocco album with gilt lines and raised bands on spine, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 29.5x23.5cm
Footnote
Provenance: Armorial bookplate of John MacLachlan, appears to be compiled from a Hanoverian perspective.