Bannatyne Club
The Ancient Sculptured monuments of the County of Angus
Estimate: £200 - £300
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
including those at Meigle in Perthshire, and one at Fordoun in the Mearns. Edinburgh: [for the Bannatyne Club], 1848. Imperial folio (75 x 55cm), original maroon half roan, 24 tinted lithographic plates, tissue guards, wear to binding, joints splitting, spine chipped, some spotting to plates [David Laing, The Bannatyne Club. Lists of Members and the Rules, with a Catalogue of the Books printed for the Bannatyne Club since its Institution in 1823, 1867, p. 79]
Provenance
The Library of a Scottish Gentleman.
Footnote
First edition, number 88 in the Bannatyne Club series. The Bannatyne Club was an antiquarian printing society founded in Edinburgh in 1823 by Sir Walter Scott on the model of London's Roxburghe Club.