[Rarebooks] fs: Basis for Stevenson's Kidnapped

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[Rob Roy].
The Trials of James, Duncan, and Robert McGregor, Three Sons of the Celebrated Rob Roy, Before the High Court of Justiciary, in the Years 1752, 1753, and 1754. To Which is Prefixed a Memoir Relating to the Highlands, with Anecdotes of Rob Roy and His Family.
Edinburgh: J. Hay and Co., 1818. 1st Edition. 1/2 leather. Duodecimo. cxxix, 244 pages. Very Good. 

Robert MacGregor and his brothers were tried for the kidnapping of heiress Jean Key in 1752. Ultimately convicted, Robert was executed by hanging in 1754. This incident is fictionalized and adapted into Robert Louis Stevenson's "Kidnapped."

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