Description
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, 2 vols, 8vo, pp. [iii]-xiii, [i], iv, 536; [iii]-viii, 445, [3], xcviii + folding chart and folding hand-coloured map. Half-titles discarded. Contemporary calf, boards bordered with double gilt rules enclosing a blind roll, spines divided by raised bands gilt, black morocco labels, other compartments tooled elaborately in gilt, marbled edges. Just a touch of spotting, tear to map sometime repaired with clear tape to verso. Sometime rebacked in lighter leather preserving earlier backstrip, hinges relined with cloth, boards a little scratched. Presentation inscription to vol. 1 flyleaf: ‘to John Wedderburn, secretary to the Highland Society of London, from his much esteemed friend General David Stewart’, armorial bookplates of John Wedderburn to pastedowns, inscription to bookplate in vol 1: ‘ Given to me, William C. Macpherson by David Wedderburn, February 1933’
