Macintyre North (2 results)

1st Edition (2 VOLUMES IN ONE). Large Folio. (x), xii, 59pp (1), 29 plates; (ii), ii, 53pp (7) appendix and rules, (2) list of subscribers. Later quarter black calf. Signed by the compiler to the dedication page. Some light foxing throughout. Light wear and marks to binding. A nice example of a scarce work (the subscribers' list suggests a print run of around 160 copies). MacIntyre North was an enthusiastic expatriate Scot who made a special study of Scottish Gaelic antiquities and arts. He founded 'The Club of True Highlanders' in London, an association which evoked the memory of an organisation founded by MacDonnell of Glengary in the 1820s.

First Edition. "NORTH, C.N. MacIntyre. Leabhar Comunn nam fior Ghael. The Book of the Club of True Highlanders. London: Richard Smythson, (1881). Two volumes. Folio (13-1/2 by 17 inches), early half black morocco gilt rebacked, raised bands, red morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers. $3200.First edition, with 70 large folio plates depicting important individuals, dress, customs, art, objects, musical instruments and music of the Scottish highland clans."The principal portion of the work is an endeavorFirstly, To supplement the valuable contributions to the History of the Highlands and Highland manners which have been made by Logan the historian, Menzies, Imlah, McDonald, and other Members of the Club of True Highanders Secondly, To weed out and detect the various mistakes, mis-statements, and errors that have gradually been accepted, without question Thirdly, To preserve the exact form and presentment of arms, armour, musical instruments, dress, agricultural implements, and other relics, by careful measured details, taken in the majority of the cases from the originals, and drawn to uniform scale, and by careful fac-simile copies and photo-lithographs of ancient drawings, and of such portions of ancient MSS , as tend in any way to throw light on the ancient manners and customs of the 'clann nan gaidheal.'" Marginal closed tears to a few leaves of text and plates, occasional faint marginal dampstaining to plates; plate XXXVII toned. Quite scarce.".