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    Scottish Tartans in Full Color
    Scottish Tartans in Full Color
    Scottish Tartans in Full Color
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    Scottish Tartans in Full Color

    By James Grant

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    The tartans of 72 Highland clans are presented in full-page, full-color, large-format illustrations. With a new introduction to tartans by J. Charles Thompson, Fellow of the Scottish Tartan Society and a noted authority in the field. A must for costume, textile and fashion designers and historians, and an eye-filling pleasure for all.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateNov 1, 2012
    ISBN9780486155579
    Scottish Tartans in Full Color
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    James Grant

    James Grant is the founder of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, a leading journal on financial markets, which he has published since 1983. He is the author of seven books covering both financial history and biography. Grant’s journalism has been featured in Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Affairs. He has appeared on 60 Minutes, Jim Lehrer’s News Hour, and CBS Evening News.

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      Scottish Tartans in Full Color - James Grant

      Introduction copyright © 1992 by J. Charles Thompson

      All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions

      Published in Canada by General Publishing Company, Ltd, 30 Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Toronto, Ontario

      Published in the United Kingdom by Constable and Company, Ltd, 3 The Lanchesters, 162–164 Fulham Palace Road, London W6 9ER

      This Dover edition, first published in 1992, contains all 73 color plates from the work originally published under the title The Tartans of the Clans of Scotland Also an Introductory Account of Celtic Scotland, Clanship, Chiefs. Their Dress, Arms, Etc., and with Historical Notes of Each Clan, W & A K Johnston, Edinburgh, 1886. The Introduction by J Charles Thompson was written specially for the Dover edition. The spelling of many clan names has been adjusted, with subsequent renumbering of the plates.

      DOVER Pictorial Archive SERIES

      This book belongs to the Dover Pictorial Archive Series. You may use the designs and illustrations for graphics and craft applications, free and without special permission, provided that you include no more than four in the same publication or project. (For permission for additional use, please write to Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501.)

      However, republication or reproduction of any illustration by any other graphic service whether it be in a book or in any other design resource is strictly prohibited

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N Y 11501

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Grant, James, (1822–1887)

      [Tartans of the clans of Scotland]

      Scottish Tartans in full color / James Grant, with an introduction

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