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HISTORIES OF THE REBELLION -- Henry BROOKE (1703-1783). Essays against Popery, Slavery and Arbitrary Power, published during the late Unnatural Rebellion in the years 1745 and 1746 . Manchester: R. Whitworth, [?1750]. Small 8° (153 x 93mm). Contemporary panelled calf (spine worn). ONLY EDITION. The six 'Farmer's Letters to the Protestants of Ireland' are written by Brooke although attributed in the advertisement to George Berkeley; the other important subjects are by Montanus, i.e. T. Gordon. Alexis: or, The Worthy Unfortunate, being a true narrative of the affecting case of a young gentleman whose ruin was occasioned by the late rebellion . London: J. Cobham, 1747. 8°. Half-title. Modern boards. Provenance : John Woodcock (signature on final page; [?]his occasional ms notes). FIRST EDITION. Reprinted in Dublin a year later, and also issued as part of The Temple of Fame: or, The Sc--d---l---s Chronicle for the year 1748 . The young gentleman=Henry Sydenham, as a ms note records. SCARCE. ESTC lists 7 copies -- Jacobitism Triumphant; or, The Whigs weigh'd in the Ballance and found Light . London: [s.n.], 1752. 8°. (Repaired hole causing loss of date on title, date mistranscribed in ink, repair also affecting lower margin of first quire.) Late 19th-century green half morocco. RARE. ESTC lists 3 copies. -- Alexander TAITT. The Right of the House of Stewart to the Crown of Scotland consider'd . Edinburgh: [s.n.], 1746. 8°. (Lacks half-title.) 19th-century morocco-backed boards (spine rubbed). Provenance : W. Stirling Maxwell (blind-stamped monogram on binding and bookplate). Second edition. -- Henry FIELDING (1707-1754). A Compleat and Authentick History of the Rise, Progess, and Extinction of the Present Rebellion ... with exact plans of the battles of Falkirk and Culloden. Dublin: E. and J. Exshaw, 1747. 8°. Engraved frontispiece portrait and 3 plates only (of 4). Modern boards with ms title on cover. Provenance : Don L. Nicholas (bookplate). Based on the detailed account which Henry Fielding publishd weekly in The True Patriot . The battle plans, with interpolated text, are not in the London edition, Cross wrongly stating that this was 'never reprinted.' Cf. Cross III, 314-5; and 11 others, including John Home's History of the Rebellion in Scotland in 1745 (Edinburgh, 1822) in original boards and a volume of late 19th-century pamphlets on the rebellion. (16)