An Account of the Antiquities, Modern Buildings and Natural Curiosities in the Province of Moray, Worthy of the Attention of The Tourist; with an Itinerary of the Province.

  • [Forsyth, Isaac]
  • Edinburgh: Printed by Michael Anderson, for I. Forsyth 1813

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FIRST EDITION, 12mo, pp. [iii]-viii, 94 + folding frontispiece and folding map.
[Bound with:] (Rosslyn Chapel). Picture of Rosslyn Chapel & Castle. Edinburgh: Published by Oliver & Boyd, & J.&J. Johnstone, 12th Sept. 1825. 12mo, pp. 15, [1] + engraved title-page and 7 further plates.
[And:] [Waldie, George] A Sketch of the History of the Town and Palace of Linlithgow. Linlithggow: Printed and published by A. Waldie, 1843. FIRST EDITION, 12mo, pp. 36 + frontispiece.
The three works bound together in 19th century quarter red roan, tan boards, edges sprinkled red. A touch of spotting, a few small tears to folds of map. Spine rubbed, boards somewhat soiled. Slip of card identifying the author of the first work loosely inserted.

Notes

Three small local history titles bound together. The first has a small piece of card with a clipped address and stamp to the reverse postmarked [19]02, the slip identifies the author as Elgin Bookseller Isaac Forsyth and claims 'This edition is known as 'the little Isaac' to distinguish it from a larger edition' - Forsyth's 1798 octavo publication 'A Survey of the Province of Moray, Historical, Geographical, and Political'. Library Hub records 4 locations holding this edition: BL, Glasgow, NMS and Aberdeen, the last of which implausibly attributes it to Cosmo Innes, who would have been 15 at the time of publication.
Following this is a small illustrated history of Rosslyn Chapel without a letterpress title-page but apparently as issued - some libraries catalogue it with the drop-head title 'Description of Rosslyn Chapel & Castle' from page 1, while the NLS catalogue describes it as [A set of engraved plates with a descriptive text.].
The final work, trimmed slightly smaller than the other two, is the first edition of a Linlithgow guidebook which reached a 4th edition in 1894. Library Hub records 2 locations for this printing: the BL and Glasgow.

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