STORIES OF SCOTLAND AND ITS ADJACENT ISLANDS

Mrs. Thomas Geldart

Published by A. Hall, Virtue, & Co., Paternoster Row, London, 1851

About this Item

Author of "Stories of England and her Forty Counties;" "Stories of Ireland;" "Truth is Everything;" "Emilie the Peacemaker;" etc. ***First impression of the true first edition. ***Illustrated with folding black and green and red outlined map of Scotland to the front (as called for), and a steel-engraved tissue-guarded (tissue-guard detached) full-page frontispiece showing: Knox's House at Edinburgh (to illustrate p.80) and full-page steel-engraved illustrations. ***Very good in dark green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and decorative small design and rules to spine and decorative blind-embossed design and borders to front and rear board. Green printed advertisements for the author's works to front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. Folding map of Scotland to the front of the book slightly foxed with small closed tear to lower edge. Contemporaneous owner's name in sepia fountain pen: J? H? Grimshaw to top of second front free endpaper. Head and tail of spine slightly nicked and rubbed. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Corners of boards slightly rubbed. A few page edges foxed. Most interior pages clean. Spine tight. No inscriptions. *** 173 pages, plus 32-page publisher's catalogue of titles to the rear, as called for. 176 mm x 114 mm. ***Contents: Chapter I: Introductory Remarks - The Early Kings; II:Three Border Counties - Berwickshire - Roxburghshire - Dumfriesshire; III: Selkirkshire - Peebleshire, or Tweeddale - Lanarkshire - Renfrewshire; IV: Ayrshire - Kirkcudbright, or Galloway - Wigtonshire, or West Galloway - Haddingtonshire; V: Linlithgow - Edinburgh, or Mid-Lothian; VI: Fifeshire - Kinross; VII: Clackmannan - Stirlingshire - Dumbarton - Argyleshire; VIII: Perthshire; IX: Forfar - Kincardine - Aberdeen - Banff- Elgin; X: Nairnshire - Cromarty - Inverness; XI: Ross - Sutherland - Caithness; XII: Hebrides - Mull - Buteshire; XIII: Concluding Remarks. *** 'The Hebrides or Western Isles amount to nearly three hundred, of which eighty six are inhabited. In habits, language, dress, and customs, they are not to be distinguished from the Highlanders of the main land. These islands were at one time independent, and governed by their own princes until the ninth century, when the Danes and Norwegians invaded and conquered them. They then became the haunts of pirates, as the robbers of the sea are called. In the thirteenth century the Hebrides were nominally yielded to the Scottish King, but still in reality governed by powerful chieftains, who were very unwilling to submit to, or acknowledge, higher authority. These chiefs and their descendants are known in history as the lords of the isles.' (Quote from Chapter XII, page 153-4).***Only one first edition held at the National Library of Scotland (COPAC). No copies of the first edition at all on WorldCat. No other first editions of this title listed on ABE. This first edition is even scarcer than the author's first edition: Stories of Ireland, itself a rare antiquarian title.***First impression of the true first edition in its original dark blind-embossed green cloth-covered boards with all plates and folding map present, as called for, in complete, collectable condition, of interest to historians and collectors of rare antiquarian books on the history of Scotland. ***Extremely scarce. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 3074x

Bibliographic Details

Title: STORIES OF SCOTLAND AND ITS ADJACENT ISLANDS

Publisher: A. Hall, Virtue, & Co., Paternoster Row, London

Publication Date: 1851

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued

Edition: First Edition