London: R. Baldwin, 1752. First edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, contemporary ownership inscription 'James Hepburn' on the title-page, later annotation 'The autograph on the title page is that of my great grandfather, James Hepburn of Keith, Marischal, who was engaged in the Insurrection of 1745. J. Hepburn' to front free endpaper, 19th-century bookplate of James Hepburn to front pastedown, binding rubbed, loss to spine-ends, front joint cracked but holding [ESTC N4592]. Together with Duncan Stewart A Short Historical and Genealogical Account of the Royal Family of Scotland, 1729 (first edition, 4to, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered engraved folding genealogical table (holes to folds), browning, 3 leaves of manuscript genealogical notes laid in, probably 19th century), and 12 pamphlets, 18th-century, all but one disbound (these not fully collated), including: An Answer of a Barrister at Law to to Curate of En-, concerning the Birth of a Suppositious Child, 1713 [ESTC T21968];Copy of what Dr. Archibald Cameron to have delivered to the Sheriff of Middlesex at the Place of Execution, 1753, first edition, repairs [ESTC T34168: 13 copies, all but one in UK]; [Stuart, James Francis Edward], A Collection of Declarations, Proclamations, and other Valuable Papers, published by authority at Edinburgh, in the years 1745 and 1746, re-printed in the year 1748 [ESTC T163990]; John Withers, The Perjury and Folly of the Late Rebellion Display'd, third edition, 1716 [ESTC T174968: six copies]; True Copies of the Papers wrote by Arthur Lord Balmerino [and others], and delivered by them to the Sheriffs at the Places of their Execution, [London, c.1746], with approx. 30 pp. early manuscript notes at rear including 'The last dying speech of Robert Lyon', 'The last dying speech of Captain Donald MacDonald', 18th-century ownership inscriptions, 'receit to cristlarise wine glass of nitric acid', etc. [ESTC T51840]; and similar (14) Note: James Hepburn of Keith (1691-?) was involved in the 1715 Jacobite rising as part of the troops raised by the Earl of Winton in East Lothian. The dramatic style in which he swore allegiance to Prince Charles Edward Stuart three decades later was vividly described by Sir Walter Scott in Tales from a Grandfather: 'As the Prince entered the door of the palace of Holyrood, this gentleman stepped from the crowd, bent his knee before him in testimony of homage, and, rising up, drew his sword, and, walking before him, marshalled him the way into the palace of his ancestors. Hepburn bore the highest character as the model of a true Scottish gentleman. He, like Lord Elcho, disclaimed the slavish principles of the violent Jacobites; but conceiving his country wronged, and the gentry of Scotland degraded by the Union, he, in this romantic manner, dedicated his sword to the service of the Prince who offered to restore him to his rights’ (1842 edition, volume 3, p. 195).
London: R. Baldwin, 1752. First edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, contemporary ownership inscription 'James Hepburn' on the title-page, later annotation 'The autograph on the title page is that of my great grandfather, James Hepburn of Keith, Marischal, who was engaged in the Insurrection of 1745. J. Hepburn' to front free endpaper, 19th-century bookplate of James Hepburn to front pastedown, binding rubbed, loss to spine-ends, front joint cracked but holding [ESTC N4592]. Together with Duncan Stewart A Short Historical and Genealogical Account of the Royal Family of Scotland, 1729 (first edition, 4to, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered engraved folding genealogical table (holes to folds), browning, 3 leaves of manuscript genealogical notes laid in, probably 19th century), and 12 pamphlets, 18th-century, all but one disbound (these not fully collated), including: An Answer of a Barrister at Law to to Curate of En-, concerning the Birth of a Suppositious Child, 1713 [ESTC T21968];Copy of what Dr. Archibald Cameron to have delivered to the Sheriff of Middlesex at the Place of Execution, 1753, first edition, repairs [ESTC T34168: 13 copies, all but one in UK]; [Stuart, James Francis Edward], A Collection of Declarations, Proclamations, and other Valuable Papers, published by authority at Edinburgh, in the years 1745 and 1746, re-printed in the year 1748 [ESTC T163990]; John Withers, The Perjury and Folly of the Late Rebellion Display'd, third edition, 1716 [ESTC T174968: six copies]; True Copies of the Papers wrote by Arthur Lord Balmerino [and others], and delivered by them to the Sheriffs at the Places of their Execution, [London, c.1746], with approx. 30 pp. early manuscript notes at rear including 'The last dying speech of Robert Lyon', 'The last dying speech of Captain Donald MacDonald', 18th-century ownership inscriptions, 'receit to cristlarise wine glass of nitric acid', etc. [ESTC T51840]; and similar (14) Note: James Hepburn of Keith (1691-?) was involved in the 1715 Jacobite rising as part of the troops raised by the Earl of Winton in East Lothian. The dramatic style in which he swore allegiance to Prince Charles Edward Stuart three decades later was vividly described by Sir Walter Scott in Tales from a Grandfather: 'As the Prince entered the door of the palace of Holyrood, this gentleman stepped from the crowd, bent his knee before him in testimony of homage, and, rising up, drew his sword, and, walking before him, marshalled him the way into the palace of his ancestors. Hepburn bore the highest character as the model of a true Scottish gentleman. He, like Lord Elcho, disclaimed the slavish principles of the violent Jacobites; but conceiving his country wronged, and the gentry of Scotland degraded by the Union, he, in this romantic manner, dedicated his sword to the service of the Prince who offered to restore him to his rights’ (1842 edition, volume 3, p. 195).
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