Lamb, A. C.
Dundee. Its Quaint and Historic Buildings
£378
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
Dundee: George Petrie, 1895. First edition, large-paper issue, one of 155 copies signed by the author (from the total edition of 528), large folio (52.5 x 39.5cm), original maroon morocco gilt, tinted lithographic frontispiece, 56 lithographic plates numbered 1-59 (plates 29/30, 37/8 and 54/5 each on single sheet), most tinted, a few in colours, spine and extremities rubbed, a few scuffs to sides. Together with a copy of the 'small paper' issue, one of 357 copies signed by the author (folio, 46.5 x 36cm, original half morocco, morocco-effect cloth dust jacket, all plates as called for), and Crawford Barlow, The New Tay Bridge, 1889 (first edition, modern cloth with original front panel laid down, 22 plates)