The Isle of Foula. A series of articles on Britain’s loneliest inhabited isle. Edited, with Memoir, by M. C. Stoughton Holbourn.

  • Holbourn, Ian B. Stoughton
  • Lerwick: Johnson & Greig 1938

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FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. viii, 256 + frontispiece and 13 plates. Original blue cloth, front board and spine lettered in gilt, orange dustjacket printed in black. A little spotting. Dustjacket a touch soiled and chipped, worn to rear panel with closed internal tear. Gift inscription dated 27.5.38 and ownership signature dated 1981 to pastedown.

Notes

Holbourn was an academic and co-founder of Ruskin College, Oxford, but also laird of Foula, the most remote of the Shetland islands, from around 1900. This copy survives in its striking dustjacket, rare in commerce.

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