Observations on the present state of the Scotch fisheries, and the improvement of the interior parts of the highlands. Being an essay on these subjects, given into the Highland Society of Scotland, and to which they were pledged to adjudge their highest prize medal for the year 1790

White, P.

Published by printed for the author, by Grant and Moir, Paterson’s Court, Edinburgh, 1791

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First edition, 12mo, pp. 202 [i.e., 204: pp. 167-68 are repeated in the pagination]; largely unopened; light cracking of the paper along the front joint, but still a near fine, sound, and clean copy in original marbled boards, cream paper shelfback. An excellent, unsophisticated copy of the first and only edition of this tract, written with "the experience of ten years residence upon the North-West coast of Scotland. Our reader will see, that the inferences which we have drawn, are almost totally different from those which have been drawn by others who have wrote before us"' (Preface). White was an employee of the General Excise-Office, Edinburgh; among the unusual "inferences" he draws are that the superiority of the Dutch in the fishing trade "is owing, in great part, to the cleanliness and care with which they pack their fish, and the want of these requisites in our fish-curers," and that the woolen industry of the remote highlands would be best served by focusing on serge and stockings. Goldsmiths' 14672; Kress B.2238.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Observations on the present state of the Scotch fisheries, and the improvement of the interior parts of the highlands. Being an essay on these subjects, given into the Highland Society of Scotland, and to which they were pledged to adjudge their highest prize medal for the year 1790
• Publisher: printed for the author, by Grant and Moir, Paterson s Court, Edinburgh
• Publication Date: 1791
• Edition: 1st Edition
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