The Stickit Minister

*** BOOK in good clean condition. Green boards with gilt title on spine. Front board has a few 'blisters' . Top edge gilt. Corners bumped, spine ends poor, internal hinges cracked. 290 pages including glossary of Scottish terms, tissue protected frontispiece and more than 50 illustrations by Moxon Cook, W G Burn Murdoch, joseph Pennell and others> This is the tenth edition. *** CONTENTS: Prefatory Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson. A stickit misnister was a Probationer who had failed t be ordained. This is a collection of stories about Galloway in South West Scotland. The author says of the illustrators ' the illustrations have been a labour of love . . of their interpretation of the mysteriously beautiful Galloway country. .A scarce early edition of the author's most appealing work. Size: 205x130mm.