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Johnstone, Chevalier de [Johnstone, James]
Memoirs of the Rebellion in 1745 and 1746
Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; London;
Date of Publication: 1822
Stock Code: 9614
Third edition. Large octavo, pp. lxxii, 456. Illustrated with two engraved portrait plates and an engraved folding map. Bound in contemporary half maroon calf and brown marbled paper over boards; five gilt tooled raised spine bands; black calf spine label with gilt titles. Wear to calf and board edges; with partially removed historic library label to spine. Printed bookplate to front pastedown, small closed tear to title page. Light pencil marks to margins. Some offsetting to plates. A tight, square, secure copy. Johnstone’s memoirs of his participation in the Jacobite rebellion before making a dramatic escape to the Hague disguised as a Lady’s maid. £100.00