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STUART [John Sobieski Stolberg] & STUART [Charles Edward] The costume of the clans with observati...

Currency:GBP Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:600.00 - 800.00 GBP
STUART [John Sobieski Stolberg] & STUART [Charles Edward] The costume of the clans with observati...
STUART [John Sobieski Stolberg] & STUART [Charles Edward]
The costume of the clans with observations upon the literature, arts, manufactures, and commerce of the Highlands and Western Isles during the Middle Ages: and on the influence of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries upon their present condition ... 1st edition, engraved titlepage, 36 plates (including engravings and lithographs), original cloth boards, rebacked, leather corners, engraved
titlepage and some plates with discolouration, some edges a little frayed, large folio, Edinburgh: John Menzies, 1845
Note: Famous imposition upon a gullible public, hungry for the Highlands, and an important contribution to the development of the "singing short bread tin" industry, by two brothers who claimed descent from Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, and hence, the crown of Great Britain.
£600-800
See Illustration.