Lot 167
Charles Edward Stuart
Jacobite, Stuart, and Scottish Applied Arts
Auction: 13 May 2015 at 12:00 BST
Description
[Anonymous] The wanderer: or, surprizing escape. A narrative founded on true facts. London: Jacob Robinson, 1747. 8vo, attractive modern half calf gilt, some soiling, title-page repaired [ESTC N66339 lists only 3 copies of this variation of this work in libraries in the British Isles and North America, the ESTC lists 6 variants altogether]
Footnote
Provenance: A trimmed ownership signature to the title-page reads: 'My Lady Douglas book'
Note: A contemporary note to the title-page verso, possibly by Lady Douglas, reads: "This pamphlet is filled with many gross falsehoods in the relation of facts. To those which consist with my own personal knowledge I have affixed on the margin this mark m". Several passages are accompanied by the 'm' mark, and many of the omitted names in the text have been filled out with the same hand. The work is a criticism of Ralph Griffiths' descriptions of Charles Edward Stuart's actions in his Ascanius.