Lot 96
£819
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Including those at Meigle in Perthshire, and one at Fordoun in the Mearns. Edinburgh: [for the Bannatyne Club], 1848. Imperial folio (75 x 55cm), original maroon half roan, 24 tinted lithographic plates, tissue-guards, wear to extremities of binding, a few plates spotted [David Laing, The Bannatyne Club. Lists of Members and the Rules, with a Catalogue of the Books printed for the Bannatyne Club since its Institution in 1823, 1867, p. 79]
Note: First edition, number 88 in the Bannatyne Club series. The Bannatyne Club was an antiquarian printing society founded in Edinburgh in 1823 by Sir Walter Scott on the model of London's Roxburghe Club.
Provenance: 1) Robert Graham (1785-1859), of Redgorton and Balgowan, advocate; 2) Thence by descent; 3) Lyon & Turnbull, 1st February 2005, lot 211.