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Murray, John & Bell, Robery Fitzroy (editor).
Memorials of John Murray of Broughton Sometime Secretary to Prince Charles Edward 1740 - 1747 (Publications of the Scottish Historical Society Volume XXVII).
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press for the Scottish History Society; Edinburgh;
Date of Publication: 1898
Stock Code: 8353
FIRST EDITION Association copy. Octavo, pp. xxxvii, [3], 539, [1], 7 catalogue, [1]. 4 plates, including frontispiece and fold-out facsimile letter. Publishers’ dark blue cloth with gilt titles and ruling to spine, and Scottish History Society crest in gilt to upper board. From the library of Sir James Barrie (author J. M. Barrie, best known as the creator of Peter Pan), with his printed bookplate to front paste-down. Spine slightly sunned with wear to head; boards a little bruised at corners, with small indentation to spine. Contents clean; some leaves unopened. A Very Good copy. Memoirs by one of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s adherents, including accounts of the march to Derby, and of Murray’s movements after Culloden. Edited with Introduction, Notes and Appendix by Robert Fitzroy Bell, (1859-1908), founder of the Edinburgh Students Representative Council. Scarce. £75.00