Jacobite Letters to Lord Pitsligo 1745-1746 preserved at Fettercairn House
( JACOBITE REBELLION ) PITSLIGO, Lord
Edited with Notes by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler.
Published: Milne & Hutchison Aberdeen, 1930
Stock code: 18575
Price: £210.00
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, and 7 plates in photogravure (all original tissue guards present); original blue ribbed cloth, crest blocked in gilt on upper board, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
Provides 'reliable information on the campaign which preceded Culloden in 1746 by the commander of a volunteer regiment of cavalry' (Pargellis & Medley). This copy was formerly in the library of William Lumsden Walker (1919-2005), formerly Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Southmead Hospital, Bristol, and bears his signature on front free endpaper. Very scarce. See Pargellis & Medley, 3321.