£200
LARGE-PAPER COPY, NO. 148 OF 150 COPIES SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER, 4to, pp. [ii], xiv, [ii], 345, [1] + 13 plates. Title-page printed in red and black. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Boards a little rubbed, lightly discoloured. Signed by the publisher to the limitation-leaf.
The large-paper issue of the first printing of the late-seventeenth century Fernaig Manuscript of Gaelic verse, which preserves the original's unique English-based orthography, but with a facing-page transcription into modern Gaelic orthography by Malcolm MacFarlane complementing it. The limitation statement indicates that 150 copies were printed, but it is unclear whether all were in this larger format. Another issue is known, on smaller paper with no date on the title-page (which is entirely printed in black), bound in blue cloth - but we have seen a copy in that form with the same limitation statement (albeit filled out to indicate it is an out-of-series review copy).
