A selection of books relating to Scottish trade, commerce and industry.

General

1. Barbe, Louis A. Sidelights on the History, Industries & Social Life of Scotland. London,
Blackie, 1919, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. xiii, 319, signature, green cloth gilt. £25.00

2. Bremner, David. The Industries of Scotland. Their Rise, Progress and Present Condition.
New York, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969. 8vo, pp. [16], viii, 535, black cloth gilt, d/w. £25.00

This work first appeared as a series of articles in The Scotsman in 1868 and was published
in book form in the following year.

3. Campbell, R.H. The Rise and Fall of Scottish Industry 1707-1939. Edinburgh, John Donald,
1980, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. ix, 208, signature, red cloth gilt, d/w. £20.00

4. Campbell, R.H. and J.B.A. Dow. Source Book of Scottish Economic and Social History.
Oxford, Blackwell, 1968, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. xxiii, 280, blue cloth gilt, d/w. £20.00

5.         Brown, Jas. Greenock: its Beauties and its Industries. A Guide to Greenock, Port-Glasgow,
            Gourock, and district. Greenock, Arthur S. Hay, 1910, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 144, numerous half-tone
            ills. and adverts., original printed wrappers sl. worn, spine sl. chipped.                   £20.00

6.         Campbell, Dugald. Historical Sketches of the Town & Harbours of Greenock. Vol. 1.
            Greenock, Printed by Orr, Pollock & Co., 1879, 1^st ed. in book form. 8vo, pp. 308, original
            brown cloth, printed paper label chipped.                  £30.00

7.         Campbell, Dugald. Historical Sketches of Greenock with an account of the Struggles in 1828
            and 1880 concerning the Harbour Constitution, also a short description of the Feud between the
            Reds & the Blues. Greenock, Orr, Pollock & Co., 1881, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 225, 312, fldg. frontis.
            map, original brown cloth, printed paper label.                              £35.00

Though not stated on the title this is the second volume of the previous work.

8. Cochran-Patrick, R.W. Mediaeval Scotland. Glasgow, Maclehose, 1892, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. viii,
200, ill., wine cloth gilt sl. rubbed. £35.00

Agriculture, manufactures, fisheries, trade, etc.

9. Fraser, W. Hamish. Conflict and Class. Scottish Workers 1700-1838. Edinburgh, John Donald,
1988, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. vii, [i], 202, blue cloth gilt, d/w. £22.00

10. Grant, I.F. The Economic History of Scotland. London, Longman, Green and Co., 1934, 1^st ed.
8vo, pp. xv, 295, blue cloth, d/w. £15.00

11.       Gregor, Mary J.F. and Ruth M. Crichton. From Croft to Factory. The Evolution of an
            Industrial Community in the Highlands. London, Thomas Nelson, 1946, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. xi,
            148, ill., map e.p.’s, blue cloth, d/w.                    £15.00

12. The Incorporation of Wrights in Glasgow. Glasgow, 1883. 8vo, pp. [viii], 73, green cloth
gilt. £20.00

History, by-laws and list of members 1800-1883.

13.       MacDougall, Ian (ed.). A Catalogue of Some Labour Records in Scotland and some Scots
            Records outside Scotland. Edinburgh, S.L.H.S., 1978, 1^st ed. 4to, pp. xxiv, 598, pict. stiff
            wrappers.                        £40.00

14. Mackinnon, James. The Social and Industrial History of Scotland from the Union to the Present
Time. London, Longmans, Green, 1921, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. viii, 298, blue cloth gilt. £22.00

15.       McLean, Angus (editor). Local Industries of Glasgow and the West of Scotland. Glasgow,
            Published … for the Meeting of the British Association. 1901, 8vo, pp. 288, e.p.’s tanned, dec.
            fawn cloth.            £25.00

16. Mann, Philip. The Gatehouse Experiment. The Story of a Lost Industrial Estate. Bottisham,
Beechwood Publishing, 1985, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 32, ill., pict. stiff wrappers. £10.00

The story of the attempt to establish Gatehouse-of-Fleet, Galloway, as “a new
Glasgow”.

17. Murphy, William S. Captains of Industry. Glasgow, William S. Murphy, [1901], 1^st ed. 8vo,
pp. vii, 304, ill., signature, brown cloth gilt. £30.00

18.       National Scottish Conference on the Employment of Children and Kindred Subjects
            Charing Cross Halls, Glasgow, 5^th and 6^th November, 1909. Glasgow, 1909. 8vo, pp. 69,
            printed wrappers.                     £20.00

            Includes a paper on Juvenile Street Trading which argues that the relatively large sums to
            be earned by selling newspapers on the streets – “quadruple the wage available to an
            apprentice in an organised industry” – renders these teenagers “unfit for a life of regular
            wage earning.”

19.       Oakley, C.A. Scottish Industry To-day. A Survey of Recent Developments undertaken for The
            Scottish Development Council. Edinburgh & London, The Moray Press, 1937, 1^st ed. 8vo,
            pp. xv, 292, ill., wine cloth gilt.                    £15.00

20.       Oakley, C.A. (editor). Scottish Industry. An account of what Scotland makes and where she
            makes it. Edinburgh, The Scottish Council, 1953, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. xvii, 332, ill., map e.p.’s, blue
            cloth, d/w sl. chipped.                 £20.00

21.       Phillipson, N.T. and Rosalind Mitchison (eds.). Scotland in the Age of Improvement.
            Edinburgh, E.U.P., 1970, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. vi, 270, blue cloth, d/w.                   £25.00

22.       Prayers used at Meetings of the (1) Convenery of Edinburgh (2) Various Crafts of
            Edinburgh and (3) Trades Maiden Hospital. 1934. A4 typescript, pp. 13, a few pencilled
            marginalia.                    £10.00

23. Scottish Industrial History: a Miscellany. Edinburgh, S.H.S., 1978. 8vo, pp. 221, blue
cloth. £12.50

Includes Journal of Henry Brown, Woolen Manufacturer, Galashiels, 1828-29; The North
British Railway Company Inquiry of 1866; The Lewis Chemical Works, 1857-1874.

24. Smith, Annette M. The Three United Trades of Dundee. Masons, Wrights & Slaters. Dundee,
Abertay Historical Society, 1987, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 85, ill., stiff wrappers. £10.00

25. Thomas, John (editor). Guild Arts or Laws for the Guildrie Incorporation, Perth, from 1670 to
1911. Perth, 1911. 8vo, pp. 56, cloth-backed boards, printed label. £20.00

26.       Thomson, John. The Universal Calculator, or the Merchant’s, Tradesman’s, and Family’s
            Assistant. Being an entire, new, and complete set of tables, adapted for dealers in every branch
            of trade, by wholesale or retail, and all families. Edinburgh, Printed for Archibald Constable &
            Co., Edinburgh; and John Murray, London, 1805, a new edition, carefully corrected. 12mo,
            pp. xii, 252, author’s warranty signature to verso of title, signature, half calf scuffed, marbled
            sides, red morocco label.                    £48.00

27. Torrie, Elizabeth P.D. (editor). The Gild Court Book of Dunfermline 1433-1597. Edinburgh,
S.R.S, 1986. 8vo, pp. xxxiv, 198, inscribed copy, pict. stiff wrappers. £10.00

28. Turnock, David. Patterns of Highland Development. London, Macmillan, 1970, 1^st ed. 8vo,
pp. 272, ill., signature, blue cloth gilt, d/w chipped. £20.00

29.       View of the History, Constitution, & Funds of the Guildry, and Merchants’ House of
            Glasgow. Glasgow, 1817. Small 4to, pp. 112, cloth-backed printed boards dust soiled and
            stained, head of spine chipped, signatures on both boards, text crisp and clean.              £35.00

Lists the Benefactors to the Poor of the Merchants House 1641-1816 and the membership
in 1817.

Accountancy, Building Societies, Insurance

30.       [Begg, Robert W.]. Interim Account … of a Going Concern. Some essays on the history of the
            firm of Mann Judd Gordon & Company. Chartered Accountants Glasgow circa 1817 to 1967 on
            the occasion of the 150^th anniversary of its foundation. Glasgow, P.P., 1967. 8vo, pp. 58, ill.,
            pict. stiff wrappers, bound in black morocco with the gilt initials RWB on front board, the front
            pastedown in the form of a presentation to Begg signed by all his partners in the firm, black
            morocco slip case.                 £30.00

31.       Caledonian Jottings for private circulation among the agents and officers of the
            Caledonian Insurance Company. Vol. 1. 1891-1893 [Vol. 3 1897-1899]. 3 vols. Edinburgh,
            Caledonian Insurance Company, 1893, ’96, ’99. 8vo, pp. iv, 248; vi, 368; iv, 396, double-
            column, half polished calf, spines ornately gilt in compartments, red morocco labels, 1” chip to
            head of spine VOL. 1, VOL. 2 lacking label. Scarce.              £120.00

32.       Lyon, James. Jubilee Souvenir of Dumbarton Building Society, Limited. 1873-1923.
            Dumbarton, Bennett & Thomson, 1923. 8vo, pp. 74, copiously ill., pebbled blue cloth gilt.
           £20.00

33.       Michie, R.C. Money, Mania and Markets. Investment, Company Formation and the Stock
            Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Scotland. Edinburgh, John Donald, 1981, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. ix,
            287, blue cloth gilt, d/w.                        £20.00

34.       Moss, Michael. The Building of Europe’s Largest Mutual Life Company Standard Life 1825-
            2000. Edinburgh and London, Mainstream Publishing, 2000, 1^st ed. Large 8vo, pp. 431, ill., blue
            cloth gilt, d/w.                        £20.00

Agriculture

35. Adam, R.J. Papers on Sutherland Estate Management 1802-1816. 2 vols. Edinburgh, S.H.S.
1972, 8vo, pp. cii, 262; 348, map, signature, blue cloth. £30.00

36.       Articles, Regulations, and Conditions of setting tacks on his lands and estates in the
            County of Aberdeen, established by Arthur Dingwall Fordyce of Culsh and Brucklay. Dated
            21^st and Recorded 24^th July, 1841. Folio, pp. 4, folded with sl. crease wear.              £35.00

37.       Broadside. Comunn Duchail na h-Alba. An dara rabhadh bliadhnail do luchd aiteachaidh na
            Gaeltachd air aiteachaidh chroitean agusgharaidhean. Duneidinn, 1848. Broadside, 171/2” x 131/2”,
            text in 3 columns, sl. crease wear, small cancelled stamp of National Library of Scotland.
           £250.00

Issued by the [Scottish Patriotic Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring
Classes].

38. Cameron, David Kerr. The Ballad and the Plough. A Portrait of the Life of the Old Scottish
Farmtouns. London, Gollancz, 1978, 2^nd imp. 8vo, pp. 253, ill. £20.00

39. Cameron, David Kerr. Willie Gavin, Crofter Man. Portrait of a Vanished Lifestyle. London,
Victor Gollancz, 1980, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 221, ill., brown cloth gilt, d/w. £15.00

40. Cameron, David Kerr. The Cornkister Days. A Portrait of a Land and its Rituals. London,
Victor Gollancz, 1984, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 263, ill., blue cloth gilt, d/w. £20.00

41.       Cameron, James. The Old and the New Highlands & Hebrides. From the Days of the Great
            Clearances to the Pentland Act of 1912. Kirkcaldy, Cameron, 1912, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. [vi], v,
            167, ownership stamp, orig. printed wrappers.                   £25.00

42.       [Campbell, George Douglas], Duke of Argyll. Crofts and Farms in the Hebrides being an
            account of the management of an island estate for 130 years. Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1883,
            1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 83, disbound.                 £140.00

            The Duke mounts a vigorous defence of his stewardship of Tiree against the criticisms
            voiced to the Napier Commission. His open letter to Lord Napier reprints the 1851 petition
           (by 139 crofters and cottars representing 825 people) requesting help with emigration.
           Scarce.

43.       Campbell, J.L. The Furrow Behind Me. The Autobiography of a Hebridean Crofter told by
            Angus MacLellan. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. xx, 202, ill., green
            cloth gilt, d/w.                      £18.00

44. Devine, T.M. (ed.). Farm Servants and Labour in Lowland Scotland, 1700-1914. Edinburgh,
Donald. 8vo, pp. 272, ill., signature, blue cloth gilt, d/w. £25.00

45. Fergusson, James. Lowland Lairds. London, Faber and Faber, 1949, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 188, ill.,
e.p.’s tanned, green cloth, d/w. £25.00

Largely concerned with agricultural improvements.

46.       Grigor, John. Arboriculture or a practical treatise on raising and managing forest trees and on the
            profitable extension of the woods and forests of Great Britain. Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas,
           1868, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. xv, 416, signature, hinge cracking but sound, green cloth gilt.            £40.00

47. Haldane, A.R.B. The Drove Roads of Scotland. London, Nelson, 1960. 8vo, pp. 266, ill., large
fldg. map, blue cloth gilt, d/w chipped and rubbed at extremities. £20.00

48. Hunter, James. The Making of the Crofting Community. Edinburgh, John Donald. 8vo, pp. 350,
signature, brown cloth gilt, d/w. £20.00

49.       Hunter, James (ed.). For the People’s Cause. From the Writings of John Murdoch Highland
            and Irish Land Reformer. Edinburgh, H.M.S.O., 1986, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 204, ill., brown cloth,
            d/w.                     £25.00

50. Leneman, Leah. Fit for Heroes? Land Settlement in Scotland after World War 1. Aberdeen,
U.P., 1989, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. x, 244, ill., green cloth gilt, d/w. £18.00

51. MacDougall, Ian (editor). “Hard Work, Ye Ken”. Midlothian Women Farm Workers.
Edinburgh, Canongate Academic, 1993, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. xi, 97, ill., pbk. £10.00

52. Mackenzie, David. Farmer in the Western Isles. London, Faber & Faber, 1954, 1^st ed. 8vo,
pp. 208, ill., map e.p.’s, green cloth gilt, d/w. £25.00

Hill farming on Mull.

53. Rennie, George Gall. Son of the Soil. Aberdeen, U.P., 1959. 8vo, pp. 165, ill., red cloth
gilt. £10.00

Reminiscences of a vet, mostly centred on Argyll and the Western Isles.

54.       Report of the Royal Commission (Highlands and Islands, 1892), with appendices. 2 vols.
            text plus volume of maps. Edinburgh, H.M.S.O., 1895. 4to, cloth-backed boards sl. worn, neat
            stamp to titles, 72 fldg. maps part-coloured, 24” x 36”, showing existing crofter holdings, land
            scheduled for extension of existing crofter holdings and for new crofter holdings, and land
            scheduled for moderately sized farms.                £1,500.00

55. Royal Commission on Labour. The Agricultural Labourer. VOL. III Scotland Parts I-III.
London, H.M.S.O., 1893-94. Folio, orig. wrappers. £100.00

56.       [Sinclair, Sir John]. [Prospectus]. General Report of the Agricultural State, and Political
           Circumstances, of Scotland. Edinburgh, Printed by Abernethy and Walker, 1812. 8vo, pp. viii,
           112, fldg. hand-col. map, original drab wrappers rebacked, Woburn Abbey bookplate.
           £150.00

          A substantial prospectus comprising the Introduction and Chapter 1 of the great work
         drawn up under the direction of Sir John Sinclair and published in 1814. Sinclair himself
         contributed the Introduction.

57. Smith, Annette M. Jacobite Estates of the Forty-Five. Edinburgh, John Donald, 1982, 1^st ed.
8vo, pp. 288, brown cloth gilt, d/w. £25.00

Agriculture, fishing, communications, etc.

58.       Smith, John S. and David Stevenson (editors). Fermfolk & Fisherfolk. Rural Life in Northern
            Scotland in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Edinburgh, The Mercat Press, 1992. 8vo,
            pp. ix, 101, ill., pbk.                £10.00

59.       Tennant, Charles. The Radical Laird. A Biography of George Kinloch 1775-1833. Kineton,
            The Roundwood Press, 1970, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. xvi, 255, [i], col. frontis., 12 half-tone plates, map
            e.p.’s, orange cloth gilt, d/w.                 £20.00

60. Walker, Rev. D. An Essay on Kelp. pp.31

with

Beaton, Angus. On the Art of Making Kelp. pp. 18

with

MacVicar, Neil. On the Means of Introducing the Linen Manufacture into the Highlands of
Scotland. pp.12

with

Mill, James. On the Spinning of Linen Yarn in Ross, Caithness, &c. pp. 18.

Extracted from The Highland Society of Scotland Proceedings. 1788. 8vo, continuous
pagination, small library stamp on first and last pages, disbound. £40.00

Banking

61. Anderson, James L. The Story of the Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited … 1810 to 1910.
Edinburgh, P.P., 1910, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. viii, 123, ill., morocco-backed cloth gilt. £40.00

62.       Bolitho, Hector and Derek Peel. The Drummonds of Charing Cross. London, Allen and
            Unwin, 1967, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 232, ill., blue cloth gilt, inscribed pres. copy from Rev. Ronald
            Selby Wright, minister of the Canongate.                      £20.00

63.       Burns, Edward. The Coinage of Scotland. 3 vols. Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1887,
            ltd. ed. 500. 4to, pp. xxiii, 365; xviii, 556; 78 plates; green half morocco sl. scuffed, marbled
            sides, spines gilt in compartments, raised bands, a very attractive copy.               £450.00

64.       Burns, Edward. The Coinage of Scotland. 3 vols. Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1887,
             large paper ltd. ed. 45. 4to, pp. xxiii, 365; xviii, 556; 78 plates, crimson half morocco, marbled
             sides, spines gilt in compartments, raised bands, a handsome copy.                  £750.00

65. Cameron, Alan. Bank of Scotland 1695-1995. A Very Singular Institution. Edinburgh and
London, Mainstream, 1995, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 262, [2], ill., d/w. £10.00

66. Crick, W.F. and J.E. Wadsworth. A Hundred Years of Joint Stock Banking. London, Hodder
& Stoughton, 1936, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 464, ill., fldg. chart, wine cloth gilt, d/w. £35.00

67.       Dinwiddie, Dr. J.L. The Ruthwell Cross and the Ruthwell Savings Bank. Dumfries, Robert
            Dinwiddie and Co., 1971, 5^th ed. abridged and revised. 8vo, pp. 61, ill., stiff wrappers,
            d/w.                        £10.00

Largely concerned with the antiquities of the parish but includes an account of the “first
savings bank to be established on business principles” which opened in 1810.

68. Gilbart, James William. A Practical Treatise on Banking. New York, Putnam, 1851, 2^nd American ed. from 5^th London ed. 8vo, pp. xii, 458, half calf scuffed and sl. worn, black lettering
piece (defective), marbled edges. £50.00

Devotes a 41pp chapter to Scottish banks.

69.       Glasguensis. Banking in Glasgow during the Olden Time. Glasgow, David Robertson, 1862,
            1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 62, later cloth-backed marbled boards, pencil signature to title of John S. Martin
            with his bookplate to front pastedown. A pencil note on title “By J.N., Union Bank” gives a clue
            to the authorship.                        £60.00

70. Healey, Edna. Coutts & Co. 1692-1992. The Portrait of a Private Bank. London, Hodder &
Stoughton, 1992, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. xxiii, 488, ill., wine cloth gilt, d/w. £30.00

71. Henderson, Thomas. The Savings Bank of Glasgow … One Hundred Years of Thrift. Glasgow,
Maclehose, 1936. 8vo, pp. xii, 91, ill., blue cloth gilt. £30.00

72.       Henry, J.A. The First Hundred Years of the Standard Bank based upon unpublished material
            selected, assembled and presented by … and edited by H.A. Siepmann. London, O.U.P., 1963,
            1^st ed. 8vo, pp. ix, 371, ill., green cloth gilt, d/w.                   £25.00

The oldest bank in Africa south of the Sahara whose founder and first Chairman was
John Paterson, and first General Manager Robert Stewart.

73. Kerr, Andrew William. History of Banking in Scotland. London, A. and C. Black, 1918,
3^rd ed. 8vo, pp. xii, 324, fldg. chart, signature, blue cloth gilt,. £30.00

74. Knox, James. The Triumph of Thrift. The Story of the Savings Bank of Airdrie Instituted 1835.
Airdrie, Baird & Hamilton, 1927, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. xvi, 366, ill., blue cloth gilt. £30.00

75.       Lindsay, John. A View of the Coinage of Scotland, with copious tables, lists, descriptions …
            and an account of numerous hoardes or parcels of coins discovered in Scotland, and of Scottish
            coins found in Ireland [with] Supplement and Second Supplement. Cork, Printed by Messrs.
            Bolster, 1845, ’59, ’68. 4to, pp. viii, 292; vii, 68; vi, 49, 23 engraved plates, morocco-backed
            blue cloth gilt, joints rubbed, split to front joint, sl. wear to head-and toe-cap, occasional fingering
            and dust-soiling, sgd. pres. copy to George Eastwood.                   £250.00

76.       McCulloch, John Herries and Kenneth J. Stirling. The Edinburgh Savings Bank. A Review
            of its Century of Service 1836-1936. Edinburgh, H. & J. Pillans & Wilson, 1936. 8vo, pp. xiv,
            120, ill., small library stamp to front pastedown, black cloth gilt.                 £30.00

77. Malcolm, Charles A. The History of the British Linen Bank. Edinburgh, P.P., 1950. 8vo, pp.
xii, 253, ill., blue cloth gilt. £25.00

78.       Munn, Charles W. Clydesdale Bank. The First One Hundred & Fifty Years. London and
            Glasgow, Collins in association with Clydesdale Bank, 1988, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 352, ill., d/w.
            £25.00

79. Munro, Neil. The History of the Royal Bank of Scotland 1727-1927. Edinburgh, P.P., 1928.
8vo, pp. xviii, 417, ill., blue cloth gilt, pres. inscription from the bank. £22.00

80. Munro, Neil. The History of the Royal Bank of Scotland 1727-1927. Edinburgh, P.P., 1928,
large paper ltd. ed. 250. 8vo, pp. xviii, 417, ill., blue and white cloth gilt. £45.00

81. The National Bank of Scotland Limited Centenary – 1825-1925. [Edinburgh], N.D. 8vo,
pp. 36, ill., blue cloth gilt. £20.00

82. Rait, Robert S. The History of the Union Bank of Scotland. Glasgow, Smith, 1930, 1^st ed.
8vo, pp. xviii, 392, ill., fldg. chart, blue cloth gilt. £30.00

83.       Regulations to be observed at the branches of the Bank of Scotland with an appendix
            relative to government stocks, &c. Edinburgh, Printed for the use of the Bank’s Officers only,
           1865. Slim 4to, pp. 74, wine morocco gilt, sl. wear to extremities, spine faded and chipped,
            internally sound and clean.                    £45.00

84. Reid, J.M. The History of the Clydesdale Bank 1838-1938. Glasgow, Blackie and Son Limited,
1938. 8vo, pp. ix, 299, ill., blue cloth gilt, d/w. £45.00

85.       Richardson, Ralph. Coutts & Co. Bankers Edinburgh and London. London, Elliot Stock, 1900,
            1^st ed. 8vo, pp. xii, 166, ill., e.p.’s lightly tanned, brown cloth blocked in black, inscribed “with
            the author’s compliments”.                     £50.00

86. The Royal Bank in Glasgow 1783-1983. N.P., N.D. 8vo, pp. 52, ill., pict. stiff wrappers, one
corner creased. £10.00

Reprints 7 articles from issues of The Three Banks Review.

87. The Royal Bank of Scotland 1727-1977. Edinburgh, 1977. 8vo, pp. [56], ill., dec. glazed
boards. £10.00

88.       Slaven, Anthony and Derek H. Aldcroft (editors). Business, Banking and Urban History.
            Essays in Honour of S.G. Checkland. Edinburgh, John Donald. 1982, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. xiv, 235,
            black cloth gilt, d/w.                 £20.00

89.       Wingate, James. Illustrations of the Coinage of Scotland … to which is attached a short
            biographical notice of the various kings, with a description of the coins they issued. Glasgow,
            Printed for the author by Aird and Coghill, 1868, ltd. ed. 150. 4to, pp. viii, 9-146, 48 plates with
            accompanying text, green morocco gilt, rubbed at extremities, split to front joint, spine gilt in
            compartments, an attractive copy.                £250.00

Brewing, Distilling

90. Andrews, Allen. The Whisky Barons. London, Jupiter, 1977, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 148, ill.,
d/w. £20.00

91. Barnard, Alfred. The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom. Newton Abbot, David and
Charles, 1969 (re.). 8vo, pp. xii, 457 + ads., ill., d/w. £90.00

92. Barnard, Alfred. The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom. Edinburgh, Mainstream/
Lochar, 1987, Centenary Edition. 8vo, pp. [16], xii, 458, + ads., ill., d/w. £75.00

93.       Brander, Michael. The Original Scotch: a History of Scotch Whisky from the Earliest Days.
            London, Hutchinson, 1974, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. xviii, 150, 54 plates in col. and b/w., text. ills., map,
           d/w.                     £20.00

94.       Campbell & Co’s Edinburgh Ales. Fine lithographed poster for “Campbell & Co’s Edinburgh
            Ales” [c.1890], glazed and framed, 18” x 25”, printed in black, pink, red and royal blue, with
            handsome gilt finishing (probably by hand) around “Campbell & Co’s Ales”, gilt body to
            “Edinburgh”, and gilt highlighting to the elaborate Royal Warrant (with lion and unicorn), a most
            attractive item.           £450.00

            Campbell’s are reputed to have started brewing at the Argyle Brewery, Chambers Street,
            Edinburgh, in 1710 and remained a family-run business until 1896 when it amalgamated
            with Hope & King of Glasgow. A new limited liability company was formed which acquired
            South Western Brewery Co. Ltd. at Newton Stewart in 1925, and was then taken over by
            Whitbread’s in 1967. The Argyle Brewery ceased production three years later. Sic transit …

95. Collinson, Francis. The Life & Times of William Grant. Dufftown, Grant & Sons, 1979, 1^st ed.
8vo, pp. 102, ill., stiff wrappers. £20.00

96. Cooper, Derek. A Taste of Scotch. London, Andre Deutsch, 1989, 1^st ed. Oblong 8vo,
pp. 128, ill., d/w. £20.00

97. Craig, H. Charles. The Scotch Whisky Industry Record. Dumbarton, Index Publishing, 1994,
1^st ed. 8vo, pp. xvi, 659, orange cloth, d/w, spine sunned. £60.00

98. Daiches, David. Scotch Whisky its past and present. London, Deutsch, 1969, 1^st ed. 8vo,
pp. 168, ill., map e.p.’s, d/w. £15.00

99. Daiches, David. Scotch Whisky its past and present. Glasgow, Fontana/Collins, 1976. 8vo,
pp. 192, 14 ills., inscription, pbk. £4.50

100.     John Dewar and Sons. Fine embossed poster for “Dewar’s Scotch Whisky”, [1930’s?], glazed
            and framed, 16” x 11”, lettered in black and pink around the central figure of a pipe-major in full
            dress uniform portrayed against the white silhouette of a thistle on a pink ground. A very attractive
            item.                    £120.00

101.     Dowie, Robert and Franc. Gibb Dougall. Chronicles of the Maltmen Craft in Glasgow 1605-
            1879 (1895) Glasgow, Anderson, 1895. 4to, pp. 214, frontis., list of members 1900 tipped in
            with some other ephemera.                      £45.00

102. Fairley, Jan et al. Chambers Scottish Drink Book: whisky, beer, wine and soft drinks.
Edinburgh, Chambers, 1990, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 128, ill., d/w. £10.00

103. Gardiner, Leslie. The NB. The First Hundred Years. Edinburgh, The North British Distillery
Company, 1985, 1^st ed. Tall 8vo, pp. 64, maroon cloth gilt, d/w. £25.00

104. Gunn, Neil M. Whisky & Scotland. London, Routledge, 1935, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. vii, 198,
signature. £30.00

105. House, Jack. Pride of Perth. The Story of Arthur Bell & Sons Ltd. Scotch Whisky Distillers.
London, Hutchinson Bentham, 1983 (re.). 8vo, pp. 151, ill., stiff wrappers. £7.50

106. Jackson, Michael. The World Guide to Whisky. London, Dorling Kindersley, 1987, 1^st ed.
Tall 8vo, pp. 224, ill., inscription, col. pict. glazed boards. £20.00

107. Laver, James. The House of Haig. Markinch, John Haig & Co. Ltd., 1958, 1^st ed. 8vo,
pp. 75, ill., wine cloth gilt. £15.00

108. Lockhart, Sir Robert Bruce. Scotch. The Whisky of Scotland in fact and story. London,
Putnam, 1974 (re.). 8vo, pp. viii, 184, signature, d/w. £12.50

109. [McBain, C.S.]. Strathisla. 200 Years of Distilling Tradition. Strathisla Distillery, 1986, 1^st ed.
8vo, pp. 68, ill., d/w. £22.00

110. McDowall, R.J.S. The Whiskies of Scotland. London, John Murray, 1971, 2^nd ed. 8vo,
pp. viii, 164, red cloth gilt, d/w. £15.00

111. McDowall, R.J.S. The Whiskies of Scotland. Rev. by William Waugh. London, John Murray,
1986, 4^th ed. 8vo, pp. 184, pbk. £7.50

112. MacLean, Charles. Malt Whisky. London, Mitchell Beazley, 1997, 1^st ed. 4to, pp. 176, ill.,
sgd. copy, wine cloth gilt, d/w. £20.00

113. Morrice, Philip. The Schweppes Guide to Scotch. Sherborne, Alphabooks, 1983, 1^st ed.
8vo, pp. 416, ill., d/w. £16.00

114. Moss, Michael S. and John R. Hume. The Making of Scotch Whisky. Edinburgh, James &
James, 1981, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 303, numerous ills., d/w. £45.00

115.     Petition of William Hislop, jun. Corn Merchant and Distiller in Dumfries [unto the Right
            Honourable, the Lords of Council and Session], March 4, 1800. Folio, pp. 16, disbound.
            £40.00

           The petition, involving a dispute over the price of a parcel of bear, highlights some of the
            problems created in the grain trade by the 1795 distilling legislation. It also contains
           information regarding Hislop’s business operations with particular regard to bear for
           distilling purposes and his exporting of considerable quantities of bear from Whithorn,
           bound for English markets.

116. Ross, James. Whisky. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. xiv, 158,
14 ills., d/w. £15.00

117. Scotch Whisky as tasted by Bill Simpson, Hugh MacDiarmid [et al]. London, Macmillan,
1974, 1^st ed. Tall 8vo, pp. 120, ill., pink cloth gilt, d/w. £22.00

118. Skipworth, Mark. The Scotch Whisky Book. London, Lomond Books, 1995. 8vo, pp.
156, ill., d/w. £15.00

119.     Spiller, Brian. The Chameleon’s Eye. James Buchanan & Company Limited 1884-1984.
            London & Glasgow, James Buchanan & Co Ltd., 1984, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 148, copiously
            illustrated, d/w.                £30.00

120.     Strathclyde Distillery. Engineer’s notebook containing detailed notes, with drawings, for the
            proposed extension of the distillery plant to double its then capacity of 1,023, 000 gallons of
            spirits. Manuscript in pen and pencil written in a clear hand, approx. 118pp. of a “reporter’s”
            note-book, lacking covers, 1935. The drawings cover everything from the excise office furniture
            to the vats with dimensions and calculations throughout.                  £120.00

121. Townsend, Brian. Scotch Missed. The Lost Distilleries of Scotland. Glasgow, Neil Wilson
Publishing, 1993, 1^st ed. Tall 8vo, pp. 160, ill., blue cloth gilt, d/w. £18.00

122. [Wilson, John]. Scotland’s Malt Whiskies. Gartochan, Northern Books, 1988 rev. ed. 8vo,
pp. 112, ill., pbk. £5.00

Engineering

123. Bathurst, Bella. The Lighthouse Stevensons. London, Harper Collins, 1999, 1^st ed. 8vo,
pp. xx, 284, ill., inscription, blue cloth, d/w. £15.00

124.     Dumfriesshire (?) Civil Engineer/Builder’s Estimate Book. Bound folio volume containing
            measurements and specifications for a number of contracts including a bridge over the River Nith
            at Dumfries, building and finishing a mansion for William Towers Clark at Moffat, etc. 30pp.
            written in a clear hand, most leaves with 2 diagonal slashes (? by way of cancellation), a
            considerable quantity of contemporary newspaper cuttings regarding engineering, Volunteer
            Military Engineers, etc. tipped on to prelims, c1850, binding broken but holding.            £75.00

125. The Forth Road Bridge. The Official Story. [Edinburgh], F.R.B.S.B., N.D. oblong 8vo, pp. 64,
ill., orig. pict. stiff wrappers. £10.00

126. House, Jack. A Family Affair. The Story of David Carlaw & Sons, Ltd. of Glasgow. Edinburgh,
P.P., [1960]. 8vo, pp. 70, ill., blue cloth gilt, d/w. £15.00

127. [Howden, Crawford W.]. A Hundred Years of Howden Engineering. A Brief History 1854-
1954. Glasgow, N.D. 8vo, pp. 56, ill., two-tone cloth gilt. £20.00

128. Allan Campbell Macdiarmid 18^th August, 1880 – 14^th August, 1945. [London, 1945]. 8vo,
pp. 16, frontis., paper-backed wine cloth gilt. £10.00

Funeral eulogies for the former Chairman of Stewarts and Lloyds.

129. Mair, Craig. A Star for Seamen. The Stevenson Family of Engineers. London, John Murray,
1978, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. x, 278, ill., 2 maps, brown cloth, d/w. £25.00

130. Miller, Thomas Ronald. The Monkland Tradition. London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1958,
1^st ed. 8vo, pp. xiv, 154, ill., fldg. chart, wine cloth gilt, d/w chipped. £20.00

131. Reyburn, Wallace. Bridge Across the Atlantic. The Story of John Rennie. London, Harrap,
1972, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 160, ill., wine cloth gilt, d/w. £20.00

132.     Stevenson, D. Alan (editor). English Lighthouse Tours 1801, 1813, 1818 from the diaries of
            Robert Stevenson with his drawings of lighthouses. London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1946,
            1^st ed. 8vo, pp. ix, 70, ill., map e.p.’s, blue cloth gilt.                £15.00

133. G. & J. Weir Ltd. 1939-1945. The War Years. Glasgow, N.D. 8vo, pp. 94, ill., cloth-backed
boards. £20.00

134. G. & J. Weir Ltd. 1886-1936. A 50 Years’ Retrospect. Glasgow, 1936. 4to, pp. 24, ill., stiff
wrappers. £20.00

135.     G. & J. Weir Ltd. The Works & Products of Messrs. G. & J. Weir, Ltd. Cathcart, Glasgow.
            [Glasgow, N.D., 1920’s] 8vo, pp. [148], illustrated throughout, few small marginal tears, blue
            printed wrappers sl. worn.                         £35.00

136. Westhofen, W. The Forth Bridge. London, “Engineering”, 1890. Folio, pp. 71, 19 plates,
156 figs., orig. blue cloth gilt. £100.00

Reprinted from “Engineering”.

Fishing

137.     Arbuthnot, James, Jun. Natural History of the Fishes that are indigenous to, or occasionally
            frequent the coasts of Buchan; with an account of the most useful fucii produced upon these
            shores. Aberdeen, for A. Brown [and others], 1815, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. [iv] ii, 63, half red morocco,
            patterned cloth sides, inscribed copy from the author, bookplate.                       £125.00

138. Eunson, Jerry. A Pioneer of the Fishing Industry, William Strong Eunson of Fair Isle, “Old Bill”
of Aberdeen. Kirkwall, Mackintosh, 1959, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 70. £30.00

139. Goodlad, C.A. Shetland Fishing Saga. Lerwick, The Shetland Times, 1971, 1^st ed. 8vo,
pp. xviii, 343, ill., d/w. £30.00

A study of the various influences which have determined the distinctive patterns of
Shetland fishing.

140. Haldane, A.R.B. The Great Fisherman of the Tay. John Richardson of Perth & Pitfour. Dundee,
Abertay Historical Society, 1981, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 64, stiff wrappers. £10.00

141.     Report of the Committee Appointed by the Treasury to inquire into the Charges on the
            Herring Brand Fee (Scotland) together with minutes of evidence and appendices. London,
            H.M.S.O., 1890. 4to, pp. ix, 49, pebbled purple cloth gilt.                         £50.00

Tipped in A4 duplicated typescript Report on the Cost of Administration of the Scottish
Herring Brand by Sir James Adams … 1922.

142. Robertson, R.B. Of Whales and Men. New York, Knopf, 1954, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. xii, 300, map,
27 ills. £15.00

143.     Troup, James A. The Ice-bound Whalers. The Story of the Dee and the Grenville Bay,
            1836-37. The Orkney Press/Stromness Museum, 1987, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 129, ill., pict. stiff
            wrappers.                  £12.00

Mining

144.     Arnot, R. Page. The Miners. A History of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain 1889-1910.
            London, George Allan & Unwin, 1951, 2^nd imp. 8vo, pp. 409, [1], 39 half-tone ills., black cloth
            gilt, d/w.                 £21.00

145.     Arnot, R. Page. The Miners: Years of Struggle. A History of the Miners’ Federation of Great
            Britain (from 1910 onwards). London, Allen & Unwin, 1953, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 567, 32 ills.,
            black cloth gilt, tatty d/w.                    £18.00

146.     Barrowman, James. A Glossary of Scotch Mining Terms. Hamilton, Printed at the “Advertiser”
            Office, by W. Naismith, 1886, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 74, signature, original boards gilt, spine rubbed
            and sl. worn. Scarce.                 £80.00

147.     Campbell, Alan B. The Lanarkshire Miners. A Social History of their Trade Unions 1775-1974.
            Edinburgh, Donald, 1979, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. xi, 354, 12 maps, signature, brown cloth gilt, d/w.
            £25.00

148.     Cochran-Patrick, R.W. Early Records Relating to Mining in Scotland. Edinburgh, David
            Douglas, 1878, ltd. ed. 350. 4to, pp. lxvi, 206, frontis., citron half morocco rubbed, marbled
            sides.                    £250.00

Largely concerned with precious metals rather than fossil fuels.

149. Donaldson, Andrew B. Mauricewood Disaster: Mining in Midlothian. Roslin, Midlothian
District Libraries N.D. 8vo, pp. 64, ill., pict. stiff wrappers. £10.00

150. Dron, Robert W. The Coal Fields of Scotland. Glasgow, Smith, 1921, rev. and abridged ed.
8vo, pp. 135, ill., brown cloth. £40.00

151. Galloway, Robert. L. A History of Coal Mining in Great Britain. Newton Abbot, David &
Charles Reprints, 1969. 8vo, pp. [l], x, 273, [12], signature, brown cloth gilt, d/w. £30.00

152.     M. & C. Machine Mining. Vol. 1 No. 1 [Vol. 3. No. 36]. 3 vols. Glasgow, Mavor & Coulson
            Limited, 1921-4. 8vo, ill., full red straight-grained morocco, spine lettered gilt, a.e.g., bookplate
            of John Bridie Mavor.                    £80.00

“A monthly journal to promote adoption of mechanical aids to the mining of coal”.

153.     MacDougall, Ian. Militant Miners. Recollections of John McArthur, Buckhaven; and letters,
            1924-26, of David Proudfoot, Methil, to G. Allen Hutt. Edinburgh, Polygon, 1981, 1^st ed. 8vo,
            pp. vi, 352, 17 half-tone ills., map, sgd pres. copy, red cloth gilt, d/w.                £25.00

154. [McKechnie, James and Dr. Murray Macgregor]. A Short History of the Scottish Coal-
Mining Industry. National Coal Board, 1958, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 116, ill., blue cloth gilt. £15.00

155.     Wauchope Estates. Small collection of items relating to mining on the Wauchope estates:

           1) Memorandum reflecting the Edge and Flat Coal Seams in the Estates of Edmonston and
           Newton belonging to John Wauchope Esquire. Manuscript tabulation of the seams of unwrought
           coal with estimates of their yield potential. 8vo, pp. 17, bound notebook, early 19^th century.

           2) Linen-backed plan, 31 x 69 cms., hand-coloured in outline within wash border, entitled Section
           Showing the Position of the Coals in the Sheriffhall Engine Pit the Property of His Grace the Duke
           of Buccleugh, also the Relative Situation of the Engine Pits upon the Estate of Edmonstone the
           Property of John Wauchope Esquire in regard of Surface altitude and relative Position of Coals in
           the said Pits and of the Surface Coals in the Pits No. 15, 18 & 19 on His Grace’s Property. By
           Robert Bald. Edinburgh, 2^nd September, 1816. Sgd. by Bald, some staining to lower section.

3) Plan of the Lands of Bankfield and of the Difft. Seams of Coall the Property of Jo. Wauchope
Esqr. of Edmonston. N.D. Paper, 42 x 31 cms., hand-coloured, in outline.

4) Plan of Ground on Edmonstone Estate to be feued to The Niddrie Coal Company Carfrae &
Belfrage 1875. Linen-backed, 36 x 50 cms., hand-coloured in outline. 4 items £350.00

Papermaking

156. Carnegie, J.F. Brownlee 125. The History of Brownlee & Co. Ltd. 1949-1974. Glasgow, N.D.
8vo, pp. 80, ill., sgd. copy, green boards gilt. £20.00

157. Robert Craig & Sons, Ltd. A Century of Papermaking 1820-1920. Edinburgh, Printed by
R. & R. Clark, Ltd., 1920, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. viii, 143, green cloth gilt. £30.00

158. Esk Mills Jubilee 1898-1948. Penicuik, P.P., 1948. 8vo, pp. 29, ill., wine cloth gilt. £15.00

159. History of John McCormick & Co. Ltd. 1890-1975. Glasgow, 1975. 8vo, unpaginated, ill.,
wine boards gilt. £15.00

160. Shorter, A.H. Paper Making in the British Isles. An Historical and Geographical Study. Newton
Abbot, David & Charles, 1971, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 272, ill., black cloth gilt, d/w. £25.00

161. Thomson, A.G. The Paper Industry in Scotland 1590-1861. Edinburgh, Scottish Academic
Press, 1974, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. xvi, 229, ill., black cloth gilt, d/w. £20.00

Printing, Publishing, Media, Bookselling

162.     Aird, Andrew. Reminiscences of Editors, Reporters and Printers, during the last sixty years.
            Glasgow, P.P., [1890]. 8vo, pp. 88, text within black and red frames, frontis. portrait, signature,
            cloth-backed dec. boards darkened and sl. soiled.                      £40.00

163. Bi-centenary History. George Waterston & Sons Limited 1752-1952. Edinburgh, N.D. 8vo,
pp. 54, ill., brown cloth gilt. £15.00

164. Blackie, Agnes A.C. Blackie & Son 1809-1959. London and Glasgow, Blackie, [1959]. 8vo,
pp. 64, ill., family tree, orig. white cloth gilt. £15.00

165. Blackie, Walter W. John Blackie, Senior (1782-1874). Some notes collected by his grandson …
London and Glasgow, P.P., 1933. 8vo, pp. ix, 78, ill., blue cloth gilt. £30.00

166.     Booksellers, Printers and Stationers. Collection of approx. 250 engraved bill-heads, being
            receipted invoices for purchases of books, newspapers, journals and stationery. A few London
            and some English provincial businesses are represented but the overwhelming majority are of
            Scottish provenance. Of these, Edinburgh and Aberdeen firms predominate but there are also
            examples from Anstruther, Brechin Callander, Elgin, Huntly, Kelso, Kirkcudbright, Kirriemuir,
           Oban, St. Andrews and Stonehaven. A couple with minor defects but otherwise in sound, clean
           condition throughout and housed in plastic folders within a loose-leaf binder. The material dates
           from 1802 to 1915.                           £350.00

167.     Cairns, J.B. Bright and Early. A Bookseller’s Memoirs of Edinburgh and Lasswade. Edinburgh,
            Cairns Brothers, 1953, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. xii, 292, col. frontis., 24 half-tone ills., sgd. copy, d/w.
          £25.00

168. Carnie, R.H. Publishing in Perth before 1807. Dundee, Abertay History Society, 1960, 1^st ed.
8vo, pp. 40, ill., orig. wrappers. £10.00

169. Catalogue. A Collection of Type Faces and selected Specimen Pages. Glasgow, Bell and Bain,
Limited, 1965. 8vo, pp. x, 130, tartan cloth-covered boards, red morocco label. £30.00

170. Catalogue. Printing Type Specimens. Miller & Richard, Edinburgh and London, 1936. 4to,
pp. 516, 39, [16], ill., dec. blue cloth gilt. £65.00

171. Cooper, Charles A. An Editor’s Retrospect. Fifty Years of Newspaper Work. London,
Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1896, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. xv, 430, blue cloth gilt, signature. £35.00

Lively reminiscences by the editor of the Scotsman.

172.     Cowan, R.M.W. The Newspaper in Scotland. A study of its first expansion 1815-1860.
            Glasgow, George Outram & Co., Ltd., 1946, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. [ix], 432, green cloth gilt,
            signature.                £45.00

173.     Dickson, Robert. Introduction of the Art of Printing into Scotland. Aberdeen, Edmond & Spark,
            1885, ltd. ed. 500. 8vo, pp. xvi, 98, 27 ills., bevelled edges, blue cloth blocked in black and
             gilt.               £60.00

174. Doughty, D.W. The Tullis Press Cupar, 1803-1849. Dundee, Abertay Historical Society, 1967,
1^st ed. 8vo, pp. vi, 74, 7 half-tone plates, stiff wrappers. £10.00

175. Gardiner, Leslie. The Making of John Menzies. Edinburgh, John Menzies, 1983, 1^st ed. 8vo,
pp. 96, copiously ill., d/w. £12.00

Published to mark the company’s 150^th anniversary.

176. Gray, J.A. The Haddingtonshire Courier. 100 Years of a County Newspaper 1859-1959.
[Haddington, 1959]. 8vo, pp. 32, ill., printed wrappers. £15.00

177. Charles Edward Green. Edinburgh, P.P., 1920. 8vo, pp. 41, frontis. portrait, white buckram
gilt, d/w sunned. £15.00

A compendium of press articles, etc. marking the death of the head of W. Green and Son,
the Edinburgh legal publishers.

178. Hunter & Foulis. A Hundred Years of Publishers’ Bookbinding 1857-1957. Edinburgh, P.P.,
N.D. 8vo, pp. 27, ill., sgd. pres. copy, blue and white patterned cloth. £22.00

179. Keir, David. The House of Collins. The story of a Scottish family of publishers from 1789 to the
present day. London, Collins, 1952, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 303, ill., blue cloth gilt, d/w. £25.00

180.     Keith, Alexander. Aberdeen University Press. An account of the press from its foundation in
            1840 until its occupation of new premises in 1963. Aberdeen, University Press, 1963, 1^st ed.
            8vo, pp. 72, designed and illustrated by George Mackie, compliments slip tipped on, brown cloth
           decorated in blind.                     £20.00

181.     Murray, John IV. John Murray III 1808-1892. A Brief Memoir. London, John Murray, 1919,
            1^st ed. 8vo, pp. ix, 106, 2 plates, library accession and withdrawal stamps on verso of title page.
            £30.00

182.     Noble, John. Bibliography of Inverness Newspapers and Periodicals. Edited, with Notes, by
            John Whyte. Stirling, Eneas Mackay, 1903, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. 48, ill., e.p.’s tanned, green cloth
            gilt.                 £35.00

183.     Oliphant, Mrs. And Mrs. Gerald Porter. Annals of a Publishing House. William Blackwood
            and his Sons, their magazine and friends. 3 vols. Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and
            Sons, 1897, 1898, vols. I & II large paper copies ltd. ed. 150. 4to and 8vo, pp. xv, 522; ix, 514;
            xiii, 435, ill., the scarce third volume partly unopened, blue cloth gilt, light tanning of e.p.’s, else a
            superb copy.                 £150.00

184.     A Printing House of Old & New Edinburgh 1775-1925. Edinburgh, H. and J. Pillans and
            Wilson, 1925, ltd. ed. 250 on hand-made paper. 8vo, pp. 108, ill., art vellum-backed patterned
            boards, bookplate of J. Cameron Smail.                     £30.00

185.     Sinclair, Alexander. Fifty Years of Newspaper Life, 1845-1895: being chiefly reminiscences of
            that time. Glasgow, P.P., [1897], 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. iv, 207, ill., sgd. pres. copy, bookplate, brown
            cloth gilt.                     £45.00

Details the writer’s 50 years of involvement with the Glasgow Herald.

186.     Smiles, Samuel. A Publisher and His Friends. Memoir and Correspondence of the late John
            Murray, with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843. 2 vols. London,
            John Murray, 1891, 2^nd ed. 8vo, pp. xv, 496, + 32 pp. publisher’s catalogue; xi, 549, 3
            portraits, pres. copy “To Mr. Ryan/Garry Hill/With A. St. Hallam Murrays/Kind regards/Aug:
            1897”, orig. blue cloth gilt sl. worn at extremities and split at lower joint of vol. one.         £65.00

187. The “Stirling Observer” Press. Ninety Years’ Progress 1836-1926. Stirling, Jamieson &
Munro, 1926. 8vo, pp. 78, ill., cloth-backed bds. gilt. £15.00

188. James Thin. 150 Years of Bookselling 1848-1998. Edinburgh, 1998. 8vo, pp. vi, 52, ill., blue
cloth gilt. £18.00

189. Tredrey, E.D. The House of Blackwood 1804-1954. The History of a Publishing Firm.
Edinburgh and London, 1954, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp.. x, 282, ill., blue cloth gilt. £40.00

Shipping, Shipbuilding

190.     Aberdeen. The Torry Ferry-Boat Disaster. The Spring Fast-Day, Wednesday, 5^th April, 1876.
            Aberdeen, William Lindsay, N.D. 8vo, pp. 16, self-wrappered, stained but an acceptable copy
            of a relatively scarce item.                         £75.00

191. Blake, George. The Ben Line … 1825-1955. London, Nelson, 1956, 1^st ed. 8vo, pp. ix,
222,ill., map e.p.’s, wine cloth gilt, d/w. £30.00

192. Bolitho, Hector. James Lyle Mackay First Earl of Inchcape. London, John Murray, 1936,