Lot 124
Edinburgh, Royal Company of Archers, Archery Competition
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
£1,375
Description
Edinburgh the Twenty Day of May. Edinburgh: John Moncur, 1726. Broadside 38.5 x 30.5cm.,[ ESTC T32423] [2 copies only]
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire
Note: This broadside announces the annual Edinburgh archery competition, founded in 1709, for which the prize was a silver arrow. The contest was to take place at Leith Links, in July 1726. Only members of the Royal Company of Archers, a patriotic society with strong Jacobite leanings, were eligible to take part. [ESTC T32423]. Rare. Only two copies traced.