Clansmen (4 results)
Published by MacLachlan & Stewart, Edinburgh 1884
- Hardcover
Seller: The Bookseller, Edmonton, CanadaThe Bookseller
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good-. Some shelf wear to green cloth hardcover. Owner label on front end paper. Title page is missing. Otherwise a solid, unmarked book. Illustrated with full page color tartans. v, 44 pages.
More imagesPublished by Cupples and Hurd N.D., Boston
- Hardcover
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Crestline, U.S.A.curtis paul books, inc.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Original green cloth stamped in gilt and blind, patterned eps red page edges. Title page nearly detached. Mild scattered foxing. Corner wear. No date, circa 1886. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; iv,22,[8] pages.
Published by MacLachlan & Stewart, Edinburgh 1884
- Hardcover
Seller: Edmonton Book Store, Edmonton, CanadaEdmonton Book Store
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Add to basketCondition: good. no dustjacket. 8vo pp.22, previous owners name on FEP. book.
More imagesPublished by MacLachlan & Stewart, Edinburgh 1884
- Hardcover
Seller: Bailey Books, St.Albert, CanadaBailey Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. No Jacket. A Very Good Plus copy of this scarce title published in 1884. Gently read. Interior has some foxing throughout. Slightly hinged at the contents page but very firmly attached. The Macpherson colour tartan page is loose. All 22 tartan illustrations are in bright vibrant colours. Red… boards are lightly bumped to extremities, some soiling and staining present to both. Double blindstamped rules to front and rear boards. Bright gilt titles to the front board. Spine is extremely sunned and brittle with some chipping and areas of loss. Laid in is a typed, hand signed letter from James Scarlett, MBE, and renowned expert on tartans explaining to the owner that the contents of "Sketches of the Clans of Scotland with Coloured Plates of Tartans" was based on a forgery. Scarlett was in fact the editor of a book denouncing the Vestiarium Scoticum as a fraud. Suspicions arose early in 1829 with Sir Walter Scott questioning the veracity of the authors and their claims. Who turned out to be Englishmen and not related to Bonnie Prince Charles at all……. Illustrations (illustrator).
