Grahame Claverhouse Viscount Dundee 1648 1689 by Barrington Michael (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Bound in clean blue cloth, with blind-stamped crest and title lettering to front board and gilt titles with Phoenix vignette to spine, this 1911 hardcover Limited Edition (1000 copies) is VG. XV/448pp with Preface, 12 Chapters, 9 Appendices, Pedigree (folding), 7 Plates with tissue guards, 2 coloured folding Maps, Bibliography and Index. Fore-edge slightly foxed, small abrasion to spine, minor wear to corners and foot of spine, otherwise sound binding and complete: general condition VG.

BROWN CLOTH. Condition: GOOD+. *FIRST EDITION*. LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES. 448 PAGES. ILLUSTRATED. TOP EDGE GILT. SIDE AND BOTTOM DECKLE EDGED. BOOKPLATE OF JULIAN TENISON WITH PENNED NOTES INDICATING: " BORN 22 JUNE 1885; ENLISTED H.M.S. BRITANNIA 1900, & WAS KILLED IN COMMAND OF SUBMARINE L4 (OR E4) ON AUGUST 15, 1916, AFTER TWO YEARS SERVICE IN THE GREAT WAR HE HAD SO CLEARLY FORESEEN, & WHICH HE WAS SO WELL PREPARED. DULCE ET DECORUM EST PAS PATRIA MORI. EMT." THERE IS A SECOND BOOKPLATE FOR EVA MABLE TENISON. TIPPED IN IS A 2 SHEET TYPEWRITTEN LISTING: "SOME PRESS OPINIONS OF BARRINGTON'S GRAHAME OF CLAVERHOUSE, VISCOUNT DUNDEE". IT LISTS 14 NOTICES RANGING FROM 3 WORDS TO A PARAGRAPH. LAID IN IS THE PUBLISHER'S NOTICE FOR AN "EDITION DELUXE ., BOUND IN FULL VELLUM ., LIMITED TO FIFTY COPIES." A CLEAN STRONG TIGHT COPY. Size: QUARTO.