Old and rare Scottish tartans : $b with historical introduction and descriptive noticesStewart, Donald William
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Old and rare Scottish tartans : $b with historical introduction and descriptive notices
Stewart, Donald William
Tartans -- Scotland
Contains twenty-two plates of tartans executed in colour lithography,
being reproductions, indifferently executed, of designs first published
in the _Vestiarium Scoticum_. No notes or explanations of any kind
accompany the plates.
8. _Highlanders of Scotland_: Portraits illustrative of the Principal
Clans and Followings, and the Retainers of the Royal Household at
Balmoral, in the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. By Kenneth
Macleay, Esq., R.S.A. With Copious Notices from Authentic Sources. In
Coloured Lithographs by Vincent Brooks. London: Mr Mitchell, Publisher
to Her Majesty, 33 Old Bond Street, W. Edinburgh: Blackwood & Sons.
1870. 2 vols. imperial folio.
The illustrations consist of coloured lithographic reproductions of
drawings made by command of Her Majesty the Queen. Biographical notes
accompany each plate. The figures are represented in various styles of
the modern Highland dress.
There are also two quarto uncoloured editions of the work—one reduced
from the original lithographs, illustrated with lithographic prints;
the other, photographed from the original drawings, is illustrated by
silver prints.
9. _Clans and Tartans._ Andrew Elliot, 17 Princes Street, Edinburgh.
4to.
Published 28th September 1872. A series of tartans from the work of
Messrs Smith, and executed by their “machine painting” process. No
notes accompany the plates.
10. _A History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans, and Highland
Regiments_: With an Account of the Gaelic Language, Literature, and
Music. By the Rev. Thomas Maclauchlan, LL.D., F.S.A. Scot.; and an
Essay on Highland Scenery by the late Professor John Wilson. Edited by
John S. Keltie, F.S.A. Scot. Illustrated with a series of Portraits,
Views, Maps, &c., engraved on steel, Clan Tartans, and upwards of two
hundred woodcuts, including Armorial Bearings. A. Fullarton & Co.,
Edinburgh and London. 1875. 2 vols. 8vo.
A reissue on a larger scale of Dr. Browne’s work (No. 7). The thirty-one
examples of tartans here given are, unlike those contained in No. 7,
reproductions of those in Messrs Smith’s work, and the plates are
executed by their process. Beyond including the plates no notice of the
tartans is taken. The work has been frequently reissued.
11. _Sketches of the Clans of Scotland_: With Coloured Plates of
Tartans. By Clansmen, J. M. P.,-F. W. S. Edinburgh: Maclachlan &
Stewart. 1884. 8vo.
The twenty-two plates of tartans contained in this book are
lithographic reproductions, poorly executed, of tartans illustrated in
the _Vestiarium Scoticum_. A short introduction and some notes on the
clans accompany the plates.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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