Reprint of Jones's Directory; Or, Useful Pocket Companion For the Year 1787. With an Introduction, and Notes of Old Glasgow Celebrities, by The "Rambling Reporter"

12mo, 24,[Intro. and Notes], 2,83,[1]p., with 2 small wood-cuts in the text; original paper over boards, wear on the spine, boards dust worn, text clean and tight. BM 13-734. A reprint of the first Directory on Glasgow complied by Nathaniel Jones, made to look like the original in terms of its arrangement, form of type, and specially prepared paper. A handy guide, listing personal names according to occupation, club memberships and committees, with a list of services and institutions in operation, along with some curious facts about the city of Glasgow in the year 1787. Preceded by a useful introduction by a nineteenth-century journalist on the historical events and personalities which made their mark on the city of Glasgow starting from the Reformation to the year 1787.