The Fauna of Scotland; With special reference to Clydesdale and the Western District. Mammalia.
The Fauna of Scotland; With special reference to Clydesdale and the Western District. Mammalia.
The Fauna of Scotland; With special reference to Clydesdale and the Western District. Mammalia.

The Fauna of Scotland; With special reference to Clydesdale and the Western District. Mammalia.

  • Alston, Edward R.
  • Glasgow: Published by the Natural History Society of Glasgow, at their rooms in Anderson's College 1880

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AUTHOR’S OWN ANNOTATED COPY, 8vo, pp. 39, [1]. Interleaved with blanks. Contemporary half red roan, marbled boards, spine lettered direct in guilt, original blue paper front wrapper bound in. A little rubbed, small leather peel to front board, front board fore-edge bumped. Armorial bookplate of Edward R. Alston to pastedown, his ownership inscription to wrapper dated 1880, several notes on interleaved blanks in ink and pencil.

Notes

Zoologist Edward Richard Alston's own copy of his paper on the mammalia of western Scotland, interleaved with blanks and annotated with Alston's own updates and additions. These may have been with a view to refining for book publication, but his own mortality (one of his citations is dated 1881; Alson died in March that year) seems to have precluded that. A later hand has added further pencil notes, often correcting Alston's Gaelic.

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