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Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First. Wraps. Very Good. First.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Pbk, 39p. Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, 1967. A clean unmarked copy in very good good. Catalogue no. 7. Preface by R.S. Thomas. g885 / m5679.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stapled softcover. 40 pages. 24.5x15cm. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 9:18. Hugh MacDiarmid: The Catalogue of a 1967 Exhibition at the National Library of Scotland to Celebrate the Poet's 75th Birthday. Preface by R.S. Thomas.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. Xviii, 576, (V) Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt Lettering With Black Designs, Brown Endpapers. Very Good +, Covers And Endpapers Clean, Gilt Brilliant, No Names Or Marks, Light Wear, Beter Than Most Copies. A Collection Of Essays, Fiction, And Poetry By Pro-Slavery Writers, Amongst Whom, For The Past Hundred Years, Perhaps Only Lafcadio Hearn, Who Left Quickly For Japan, And Audubon, Have Been Much Admired Outside The South. Portrait Plates (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. A substantial and scholarly late-Victorian study of Scottish ecclesiastical silver. Rev. Thomas Burns's Old Scottish Communion Plate (1892) remains the definitive reference work on the subject, documenting the design, history, and use of communion vessels across Scotland. The volume includes a preface by the Moderator of the General Assembly, James MacGregor, and valuable chronological tables of Scottish hallmarks compiled by Alexander J.S. Brook. Illustrated throughout with numerous plates and engravings, it is both an important work of church history and a key reference for collectors of Scottish silver. Old Scottish Communion Plate, by the Rev. Thomas Burns, F.R.S.E., F.S.A. Scot., Minister of Lady Glendorch's Parish, Edinburgh. With a Preface by The Right Rev. James MacGregor, D.D., St Cuthbert's, Moderator of the General Assembly, and Chronological Tables of Scottish Hall-marks prepared by Alexander J.S. Brook, F.S.A. Scot. Published in Edinburgh by R. & R. Clark, 1892. Limited to 175 copies on large paper. This numbered 69 and is signed by the author. A good hardback in original Publisher's binding - burgundy leather spine and corners with gilt decoration, rules and titles. With red cloth over boards with gilt title and roundel to front cover. The covers with some rubbing, bumping and wear. Outer joints are rubbed, but all soundly bound. Text is bright and clean throughout, with clean and attractive plates. Burgundy endpapers with some rubbing. With gilt top edge to text block. A very usable copy of this substantial and comprehensive work. Text in English. xxx + 651pp + Numerous illustrations and Plates (some with tissue guards). Dimensions: approximately 295mm high x 248mm wide x 72mm. Approximate weight 3.5kg (unpacked). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. T-Mead; Mead, G. R. S. (edited, preface, bibliography); translation By Taylor, Thomas Select Works of Plotinus.