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SCOTLAND LOGAN (JAMES) AND ROBERT RONALD MCIAN. Clans of the Scottish Highlands, Illustrated by Appropriate Figures, Displaying their Dress, Tartans, Arms, Armorial Insignia and Social Occupations, 2 vol. FIRST EDITION, Ackermann and Co., 1845-1847
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London, KnightsbridgeSold for £4,062.50 inc. premium
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SCOTLAND
LOGAN (JAMES) AND ROBERT RONALD MCIAN. Clans of the Scottish Highlands, Illustrated by Appropriate Figures, Displaying their Dress, Tartans, Arms, Armorial Insignia and Social Occupations, 2 vol. FIRST EDITION, chromolithographed armorial frontispieces, dedication leaf printed in gilt, list of subscribers, 72 finely hand-coloured aquatint plates after McIan (some heightened with gum-arabic), occasional light spotting, a few plates with imprint shaved or cropped, 'Gordon' plate cropped affecting fishing rod in image, contemporary green morocco, elaborately panelled in gilt, inner gilt dentelles, g.e., extremities rubbed, small dampstain to one lower cover [Abbey Life 426; Colas 1892; Lipperheide 1032], folio (368 x 250mm.), Ackermann and Co., 1845-1847
Footnotes
An attractively bound copy of Logan and McIan's work, published on the centenary of the Jacobite rising and reflecting the growing Victorian interest in a romanticised vision of Scotland.
Provenance: Parker Gallery, purchase receipt dated 6 December 1947 (£120); John Donalson Craig, bookplate; and thence by descent to the present owner.
Saleroom notices
Plates are hand-coloured lithographs, not aquatints.