Lot 75
Annan, James Craig (photographer)
The Princess Louise Scottish Hospital for Limbless Sailors and Soldiers at Erskine House
Auction: 02 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Glasgow: printed for private circulation, James Maclehose and Sons, 1917. First and only edition, 4to (31.8 x 25cm), contemporary blue quarter morocco, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 85 pp., half-title, 39 photogravure plates, spotting to endpapers, shallow tide-mark to top edge of half-title (occasionally reappearing elsewhere), with a laid-in typed letter on T. R. Annan & Sons, signed ‘Craigie’ (presumably James Craig Annan), dated 1936
Footnote
A striking photographic record of the work of one of the most important hospitals established to cope with the unprecedented human toll of the Great War and the destructiveness of modern ordnance (the other being the Queen Mary Hospital Auxiliary Hospital, Roehampton). In addition to the hospital grounds and buildings, the plates show the manufacture of prosthetic limbs, and amputee soldiers engaged in various activities including beekeeping, wood-turning and basket-weaving.