Macdonald allan reginald (1 Ergebnisse)

First edition. Quarto, pp., 126. With sixteen full-page plates, as called for. Red and green cloth covers with gilt titles and motif to spine, gilt motif to upper board and gilt fillet to upper and lower boards. Some minor shelf wear but otherwise a near fine copy. Flora Macdonald (17221790) was a Jacobite heroine best known for helping Bonnie Prince Charlie escape after his defeat at the Battle of Culloden by disguising him as her maid. After being imprisoned in the Tower of London, she was released and later emigrated to North Carolina with her husband. After the American Revolution she returned to Scotland, where she died on Skye.…