Lot 32
Bindings - Jacobite Interest
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
Description
[Dalrymple, David, Sir (Editor)] Memorials and letters relating to the history of Britain in the reign of James the first... Glasgow: printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for the university, 1762. First edition, 8vo., 2 volumes, later tree calf with gilt tooled border decoration, slight rubbing to spines and covers; Hogg, James The Jacobite relics of Scotland... Edinburgh: printed for William Blackwood, 1819-1821. 8vo., 2 volumes, contemporary calf, gilt tooled spines, edges gilt, very slight rubbing to spines; Doran, Dr. London in the Jacobite times. London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1877. 8vo., 2 volumes, contemporary half calf with gilt tooled spines, slight rubbing to spines; Aikin, [Lucy] Memoirs of the court of King James the First. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1822. 8vo., 2 volumes, contemporary calf gilt, edges gilt, covers sensitively repaired, very slightly rubbed, foxing to initial pages; Charles, George History of the transactions in Scotland...1715-16 and 1745-46... Stirling: printed for George Charles, 1817. 8vo., 2 volumes, contemporary half calf gilt, slight rubbing to covers and spines, occasional internal foxing and darkening; Cockburn, Henry Thomas, Lord An examination of the trials for sedition...in Scotland. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1888. 8vo., 2 volumes, contemporary red half calf, very clean copy, slight fading to spines; and 1 other (12)
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire
Note: Annotations to the endpapers of Lucy Aikin's work in pencil read: "...I wish Lucy would take up the needle and darn stockings instead of History - she would then be more harmlessly employed than in leading unhappy readers with open appetites into the purchase of literary aliment already reduced by a caput mortuum by repeated stewings -"