Annals of the Parish Or The Chronicle of Dalmailing during The Ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder Written by Himself Arranged and Edited by John Galt Illustrated in Colour by Henry W. Kerr, R. S. A.

Galt, John. Kerr, Henry W. (illustrator)

Publication Date: 1910

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London & Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1910. Thick 8vo, ix, [1], 283, [2]pp. plus frontispiece and 16 color plates. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt to top board and backstrip, dark brown endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; frontispiece and illustrated throughout in color by means of facsimile plates tipped onto dark brown card stock, each with printed tissue guard. Some staining and rubbing to boards and backstrip, some offsetting as usual from plates. Very good. § First edition of this classic depiction of Scottish country life. The fictional first-person narrative of a parish minister at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. A handsome edition by the Foulis Press, which produced a number of beautifully illustrated books featuring tipped plates like this, such as the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (issued in several editions) illustrated by Frank Brangwyn. Seller Inventory # 104411

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Title: Annals of the Parish Or The Chronicle of ...

Publication Date: 1910

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition