James Logan | The clans of the Scottish Highlands, 1845-1847, 2 volumes, red pictorial cloth

James Logan

The clans of the Scottish Highlands, illustrated by appropriate figures, displaying their dress, tartans, arms, armorial insignia, and social occupations. From original sketches, by R.R. McIan. London: Ackermann & Co., 1845-1847

2 volumes, 4to (361 x 255mm.), 2 lithographed frontispieces, 2 chromolithographed additional titles, 70 hand-coloured lithographed plates, original red morocco-backed red pictorial cloth gilt, occasional very light foxing and a few small stains, text-blocks starting to crack, extremities bumped

A romanticised view of the Highland Clans, published to coincide with the centenary of the Jacobite Rebellion.

LITERATURE

Abbey (Life) 426

PROVENANCE

G.N. Forbes-Gordon, presentation inscription from C. Dalrymple, March 1893