MACKENZIE Sir George, of Rosehaugh, of Rosehaugh
£1,900
Auction: 1 February 2005 at 11:00 GMT
Description
The laws and customes of Scotland, in matters criminal ... 1st edition, titlepage in red and black, pp. [xvi], 581, verso blank, contemporary red morocco elaborately gilt tooled in a "cottage" style binding, the covers with a roll tool border with tulips and other flowers surrounding a central arabesque built up with leaf and floral tools, with small bird tools at the corners of the "cottage roofs", the small bird tool repeated in compartments on the spine surrounded by pointille and floral tools, a.e.g. and gauffred, joints and edges rubbed, a few leaves slightly discoloured, 4to., Edinburgh: George Swintoun, 1678
Note: Aldis 2133; Ferguson 19; Wing M 165
Provenance: With the bookplate of Stuart of Dunearn. Mr Maxtone Graham holds this volume in the Joseph Sevier portrait of himself & Mrs Maxtone Graham reprroduced at the start of this section.