Author: PREBBLE John
Title: Culloden [with] The Highland Clearances [with] Glencoe. [Mixed Impressions.] THE FIRE AND SWORD TRILOGY COMPLETE IN DUSTWRAPPERS
Description: Secker & Warburg,, [1963-63-68]. 3 vols., 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with plates and maps, small contemporary signature on front free endpaper of second and third volumes; cloth (red tweed/green tweed/black respectively), a very good, bright, clean set in dustwrapper, the wrappers lightly creased and frayed at edges. The trilogy comprises 'Culloden' (1961; third impression 1963), 'The Highland Clearances' (1963; second impression 1963); 'Glencoe' (1966; third impression 1968). Often termed the Fire and Sword trilogy, this is the author's masterly account of the key event of the Jacobite Rebellion and the destruction of the traditional clan system. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

Keywords: military, jacobite rising, jacobite rebellion, scotland, jacobite, forty-five, clearances, prebble, john prebble


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