Lizars' Scottish Tourist: A Guide to the Picturesque Scenery, Antiques, Etc.

The sixteenth edition of this tourist's guide to Scotland from the Lizars map-making and publishing family. Sixteenth edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, title vignette, five folding maps, one folding plate, forty-seven plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A detailed guide to the country of Scotland, written for the use of tourists. With chapters on Edinburgh, Stirling, the Trosachs, the Lochs, Taymouth, Perth, Glasgow, Selkirk, Berwick, and more. Includes fifteen examples of tours with excursions in different areas of the country. Edited by William Home Lizars, a Scottish painter, engraver and publisher, the son of Daniel Lizars, an eighteenth-century Scottish engraver, map-maker and publisher. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, worn with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and board edges with the odd small mark. Splits to the joints resulting in light fraying and spine lifting. Minor loss to the head and tail of the spine. Hinges tender. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Light age toning to the extremities. Map to the rear has been torn loose and is now secured by a panel of the front pastedown. The odd small closed tear or crease to the folding maps and plates. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Good Only.…