3rd Feb, 2023 14:00
Militaria, Maps & Ethnographica
JACOBITE INTEREST - AN 18TH CENTURY RELIGIOUS COMMENTARY LIKELY OWNED BY AMELIA FRASER
THE CHRISTIAN'S PATTERN: OR, A TREATISE OF THE IMITATION OF JESUS CHRIST
Tenth Edition, inscribed 'Amelie Fraser her book' beneath title illustration, retaining further engraved illustrations, pub. J. Roberts, London 1721
Footnote: accompanied by a note stating that it is likely this book belonged to Lady Amelia Fraser of Clan Fraser, a clan sympathetic to the Jacobite cause with Lord Fraser eventually beheaded at the Tower of London in 1746
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Sold for £280
Estimated at £30 - £50
Condition Report
Book size 19.5cm x 13cm. Worn condition, distress to boards with some losses, front board half attached to spine; browning, staining and sporadic pencil marks to pages, named to frontispiece and with different name to title page; private collector of artefacts but no known direct provenance to Clan Fraser. Additional images available.
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