Glencreggan: Or, a Highland Home on Cantire

Bede, Cuthbert [Bradley, Edward]

About this Item

Longman, Green . London, 1861, first edition; 8vo, two volumes in one;, 140 x 200mm and 62mm thick; pp xxv, 371, xiv, 358, [2]; three partially coloured maps including one folding, eight chromolithographs, and 61 woodcut illustrations after the author's drawings; green ribbed cloth, spine titled gilt; small and now almost closed tear at the head of the spine, some irregular light darkening of the margins and backs of the coloured plates, back inner joint cracked with two of the ties severed but still generally a decent copy. . . . "Cantire" is, of course, Kintyre, and the book is a sympathetic and detailed account of an extended visit to the peninsula during August and September 1859, subsequently enhanced with historical and geographical detail. Glencreggan House itself is on the west side of the peninsula perhaps three fifths of the way to the Mull and being high has outstanding views north and south and particularly across the short distance to Ireland, there running from Fairhead to the Giant's Causeway and to the north to Mull.Bede's visit begins in Scotland in Greenock and proceeds to Arran and thence to Campbelltown and taking in also Loch Fyne, Gigha and elsewhere n the Hebrides. Seller Inventory # 000955

Bibliographic Details

Title: Glencreggan: Or, a Highland Home on Cantire

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Bradley, Edward

Condition: Good