Balcanquall (2 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Presumed First Edition. 1835 & 1836. Presumed first edition. 90pp. & 23pp. (the School Act). George Heriot (1563-1624) was a Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist, probably best remembered today as the founder of George Heriot's School, Edinburgh. His name has also been given to Heriot-Watt University. This book consists of three parts: the Last Will and Testament of George Heriot, the Statutes of George Heriot's Hospital [School], and an Act to Explain and Extend the Powers of the Governors of the Hospital (separately paginated with its own title-page and dated 1836). The book is bound in the original dark blue-brown cloth covered boards with gold titling on the front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and light soiling to the boards. The bottom corners and spine ends are lightly bumped. The contents are tight and clean with a little scattered light foxing and a crease across the top corner of a few pages. A name and address has been written in pencil on the front fixed endpaper.…

Brown Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition Thus. A rare printing of the 'last will and testament' of the Edinburgh goldsmith and philanthropist whose name is carried by an independent school and the Heriot-Watts university. The will dated 10th December 1623 'printed from a copy extracted from the Registry of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury'. This publication appears to have had blue paper wraps - partly surviving along the margins of the title page. This book bound contemporaneously in a finely pebbled brown cloth. No inscriptions but a modern printed bookplate is pasted to the front paste-down. All board corners are a little bumped or turned in. There is a 1cm chip to the cloth at the head of the spine and slight rubbing to the cloth at the tail of the spine. Light spotting to the endpapers - extremely light and scattered elsewhere. A very good, clean, tight copy of a scarce publication.…