A Memoir of the 'Forty-Five

This first-person memoir of the Jacobite rising of 1745-46 is written by James Johnstone, a Lowland Scot who joined Charles Edward Stuart at Perth and served as a captain in the Duke of Perth's regiment. He follows the campaign through Prestonpans, the march into England as far as Derby, the retreat, and the defeat at Culloden. The later pages cover weeks of hiding in the Highlands and his escape by way of Edinburgh and London to the Continent. He offers sharp portraits of the Prince and of Lord George Murray, whose generalship he admires and whose temper he argues cost the cause.

Bound in dark blue buckram blocked with a gilt design. Dark blue and grey slipcase.