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The Antique Collector Magazine, June 1972 / July 1972

Features: Value-Added Tax - Zero-Rating or Exemption; Recent Acquisitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum; Newliston, Kirkliston, West Lothian, Scotland - The Home of the Hog Family for 250 Years; Grosvenor House Fair Supplement; William James Muller 1812-1845; The Willow Pattern; The Craftsmanship of English Walnut Furniture; Celebrated Profiles - silhouette portraits at the National Portrait Gallery; Daniel gardner - An Exhibition at Kenwood; European Taste - Frank Partridge's Exhibition of English and French Furniture; English Silver Salt Cellars; Worcester Spoon Trays in the Marshall Collection; and more. Some markings. Average wear. Magazine

The Beauty of Scotland in colour.

First impression.

The Best of the Lothians

Vg (no dj, grey cloth lightly tanned on spine,a very good clean copy with gift inscription front fixed endpaper, contents clean and bright throughout) 12mo unpaginated. First impression. Photographed, written and illustrated by the author. B/w photographs, sketches, maps, and descriptive text.

The Black Douglas

184 pages. Index. Bibliography. "The first full account of James of Douglas' eventful and dangerous career up to his celebrated death carrying Robert Bruce's heart into battle against the Moors." - from dust jacket. Front free endpaper removed. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Worthy reference copy. Book

The Black Douglases: War and Lordship in Late Medieval Scotland, 1300-1455

358p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good

The Black Isle : A Portrait of the Past

Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 103pp. An account of the history of the peninsula in Ross and Cromarty and people who lived there.

The Book of Dumfriesshire. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

8vo., First Edition; cloth, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

The Book of Edinburgh Anecdote.

8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a mounted coloured frontispiece [by Sir J Gordon Watson] and 32 mounted plates in sepia or monochrome, neat inscription on front free endpaper; original buckram gilt, gilt back, gilt top, UNCUT AND LARGELY UNOPENED, a very good, clean copy. No. 1 of Foulis's famous series 'The Anecdote Books'. Elfick and Harris, 357.

The British Constitution Now: Recovery or Decline?

The British Constitution Now will fascinate the practising politician, the student of politics, and the general reader who is literally wondering what his country is coming to. 289 pages. Text contains underlining in pencil scattered throughout. Some rubbing and indentations to surface of dust jacket.

The British Empire. Part II: Law of Scotland. Sources and juridical organization

53pp., 25cm., softcover, stamp, J68713

The Brochs of Mousa and Clickhimin, Shetland.

The Broons and Oor Wullie : The Fab Eleven Live at Glebe St

Rubbing out to top corner of ffep. No inscriptions or other marks. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with signs of handling and light creasing to edges. 141pp. The sensational sixties from the Sunday Post.

The Broons and Oor Wullie : The Glory Years 1956-1969

No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 125pp. Classic cartoon humour out of Scotland's Sunday Post from the 1950s and 1960s.

The Broons. Scotland's Happy Family.

Illustr.

The Bruce or the Metrical History of Robert I. King of Scots - Published from a manuscript dated 1489

Foxing to end papers. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tight pages with soiled slightly rubbed original red cloth boards and a little bumping to corners. Rubbing to paper title on spine. Dusty untrimmed edges, many also still uncut. 496pp. Volume I of 'The Bruce and Wallace' taken from two ancient manuscripts with notes, biographical sketches and glossary.

The Capital of Carrick and the District about it.

First edition, small 8vo (187 x 128 mm), 148pp., frontispiece, presentation inscription on upper blank margin of title, "To Mr. Jas. A. Morris from his old friend the Author.", 4pp. of advertisements at end, original pictorial cloth, a nice copy.

The Captive Crown

"The third of a trilogy of novels about the rise of the House of Stewart" Book

The Case of the Heritors of the Parish of Gorbals, Stated.

8vo, 56pp., first and last leaf a little stained and dust soiled, uncut. JISC locates a single copy at the University Aberdeen.

The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland from the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century. FACSIMILE REISSUE; 250 COPIES WERE PRINTED

5 vols., 8vo., with very numerous fine illustrations throughout; red cloth, a near fine set. EDITION LIMITED TO 250 COPIES. Much-needed facsimile re-issue of the scarce original edition of 1887-92.

The Chambered Tombs of Scotland. [Complete set]. NEAR FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, many full-page and smaller illustrations, plans and diagrams in the text, and 2 large folding maps in pocket at end of second volume, free endpapers lightly spotted; green cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. A standard reference.

The Chiefs of Grant. Vols II and III [of III]. [TWO VOLUMES ONLY OF THREE]. Volume II: Correspondence. Vol. III: Charters. [WANTING VOLUME I: MEMOIRS.] AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION VOLUMES WITH MS CORRECTIONS

2 vols., [of 3], roy. 8vo., First Edition, HEAVILY CORRECTED AND ANNOTATED IN MS THROUGHOUT; red faux-morocco cloth, sides framed and lettered 'PRESS COPY' in gilt, gilt backs, green endpapers, expertly rebacked to style with old backstrips laid down, both very good, bright, clean copies. EDITION LIMITED TO 150 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 47). WITH THE AUTHOR'S SEPARATE PRESENTATION CERTIFICATE NUMBERED AND COMPLETED IN MS (Certificate lightly frayed at edges). THIS COPY IS PRESENTED BY THE EARL OF SEAFIELD [the author's son] TO THE HON. JAMES OGILVIE GRANT OF GRANT. Tragically, this copy is wanting the first volume. It is unclear whether the copious amendments were made before or after presentation, but given the volume of revision it seems likely that they were made after scrutiny by the recipient. RARE AND POSSIBLY UNIQUE. Thomson p.73.

THE CLAN CAMPBELL. (Clain Diarmid) A Record Of Service By A Race Of Statesmen.

32 p. + Tartans and Chiefs' Arms in Colour and a Map. 12mo. Original color pictorial stiff paper boards. Slight wear at head and tail of spine. Very good. GENEALOGY 2

THE CLAN GORDON. "Cock O' The North".

31 p. + Tartans and Chiefs' Arms in Colour and Maps. 12mo. Original color pictorial stiff paper boards. Slight wear at corners. GENEALOGY 2

The Clansman

The first of three lively novels about Rob Roy and the MacGregor clan. Book