The Jacobites and Their Drinking Glasses

Seddon, Geoffrey B.

Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collector's Club, 1995. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gold gilt lettering on cover and spine, pictorial flyleaves, white and color pictorial dust jacket with white and red lettering, 268 pp., bw illustrations. VG/VG (book has inscription of previous owner of front page, all other pages clear and intact - dust jacket shows very minimal wear at spine). Item #182696
ISBN: 9781851492077

"If we in Britain believe in hereditary monarchy, and presumably we do since our monarch still succeeds to the throne according to strict hereditary principles, then it should not be difficult to understand how the later Stuarts believe they had been cheated out of their inheritance. It is small wonder they were prepared to resort to armed rebellion in attempts to regain to armed rebellion in attempts to regain what they felt was theirs by right. Their supporters, the Jacobites, varied from committed zealots risking all for the 'cause' to fireside club-goers who preferred to raise engraved wine glasses to toast to 'King over the Water' rather than raise their swords. The drinking glasses they used have a story to tell which adds to our knowledge of those turbulent times. Much has been written about Jacobite history and about the principal characters involved but a book relating the history to the Jacobite glasses is long overdue. Here is such a book. It tells of the secret Jacobite societies and will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the period. Destined to become the standard reference work on its subject it will be essential reading for any student of eighteenth centuy English glasses. This is the most detailed study of Jacobite glass ever undertaken and besides providing complete coverage of the subject, for the very first time, supplies a means of authenticating the genuine engravings in a field known to be infested with fakes." - dust jacket descriptions.