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Sutton Publishing, [Published date: 1998]. Softcover, xii, 172 pp; 25 cm; 1998 Reprint edition. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white portraits, facsimiles of historical letters, and maps including a map of Scotland on lining papers.
In very good condition with light bumping to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. This edition, first published in illustrated form in 1995 and reissued in 1998, is based on C. V. Wedgwood's celebrated 1952 biography. [From back cover] James Graham, first Marquess of Montrose, was a figure of true heroism and nobility who struggled for years against the anti-royalist forces of Civil War Scotland. He inspired the admiration of his countrymen Sir Walter Scott and John Buchan and is still at the centre of historical controversies over covenant and king in seventeenth-century Scotland. Dame Veronica Wedgwood's classic biography catches the fire of the legend in recounting Montrose's story. Her narrative shows the hero against the cultured background of his youth in St Andrews; carries him through the epic marches across the mountains and glens of the Highlands, and on to his terrible end at Edinburgh, where he was executed in 1650. Montrose has been described as a military genius compromised by serving two ingrates - Charles I and Charles II - and the book conveys poignantly the tragedy of a noble, ambitious character caught in the complicated religious and political currents of the period. All those interested in the complex events of the Civil War in Scotland will enjoy this informative, accessible and beautifully illustrated book by a historian of genius. C. V. WEDGWOOD (1910 - 1997) was one of the most influential and admired historians of the twentieth century. Her many publications include Oliver Cromwell, Truth and Opinion, The King's Peace, The King's War and The Trial of Charles I. [Contents include: List of Illustrations; Foreword; Silver Arrows and Golden Opinions; For God, Covenant and Country; King Charles or King Campbell?; Hope Deferred; The Chase Begins; A Far Cry to Loch Awe; Heroic Ventures; Triumph; Disaster; Exile and Return; The Last Victory; The Great Marquess; A Note on Books and Sources; Index.]