The Clans of the Scottish Highlands, James Logan, R.R. McIan

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I was on the hunt for illustrations of highland dress, and was wondering if I could find images of all of R.R. McIan's illustrations for The Clans of the Scottish Highlands. Lo, and behold: Stanford has the 2 volumes as JPEG images. It's a slog to download, though. You have to download one image at a time.

https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/927302

"Part 2," is actually Vol. I, and "Part 1," is Vol. 2.

This is very useful, as the images are good quality and more than enough for most peoples needs, I would have thought.

The work has been re-issued a few times, and those from the 19th century are fairly faithful to the original. Around 1980 in a large format facsimile with the images being more than twice the size of the original lithos, was published in both hard- and paper-covers. Sets of McIan's prints were published at the same time, with the intention of them being framed and displayed - as you see in many of the Highland dress outfitters.

Since then, there have been other publications of the prints in large paper-back format, again with the intention of them being framed for display, so there is now an abundance of them on the second-hand book market, ready printed in good display or exhibition quality if you want to save yourself time and the cost of printer ink!