Fife
Collection of works
£580
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
Fraser, Sir William. Memorials of the Family of Wemyss of Wemyss. Edinburgh: [no publisher], 1888. First edition, one of 100 copies (according to other records), 3 volumes, 4to, original red quarter morocco gilt by C. S. Smith of Edinburgh, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, decorative title-pages, 33 colour lithographic plates reproducing original charters, letters and other documents, wood-engraved illustrations of seals and signatures in text, volume 1 with presentation plate to front pastedown, largely effaced but name of recipient William Blackwood Esq. (presumably the famous publisher) visible, volumes 2-3 with bookplates of William Montagu Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale, spines rubbed, peripheral mottling to covers, volume 2 with split to foot of spine;
Idem. Illustrations of the Memorials of the Family of Wemyss of Wemyss. Edinburgh: [no publisher], 1888. 2 copies, 4to, both in original red cloth gilt, containing duplicates of the title-pages, colour plates and other illustrations from the Memorials, one copy with bookplate of Innes of Learney to front pastedown and later colour print mounted to front free endpaper, the other with bookplate of Francis James Grant, Rothesay Herald and Lyon Clerk, second copy with wear to spine-ends mottling to covers;
Idem. The Melvilles, Earls of Melville, and the Leslies, Earls of Leven. Edinburgh: [colophon:] by T. and A. Constable, at the Edinburgh University Press, 1890. First edition, one of 150 copies, 3 volumes, 4to, original red cloth gilt, rebacked in red morocco, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, 41 plates including photogravures or lithographs from portrait paintings (many on india paper, mounted) and colour lithographic facsimiles of historical documents, printed presentation plate addressed in manuscript to Archibald Stirling of Keir to front pastedown of volume 1;
Idem. Introductions and Illustrations in the Melvilles, Earls of Melville and the Leslies, Earls of Leven. Edinburgh: [no publisher], 1890. 2 copies, 4to, both in original red cloth gilt, plates, one copy inscribed by William Fraser to David Chalmers of Redhall (1820-1899), Scottish industrialist, with a letter from Fraser to Chalmers in original envelope mounted to endpaper, and Chalmers's bookplate;
Patrick, John (1831-1923). Photographic Views of the Fife Coast, c.1870. 8vo, original green cloth, 13 albumen-print photographs (10.7 x 18cm), on card mounts backed onto continuous sheet of linen folded in leporello format, printed border and captions to mounts, contemporary gift inscription to front pastedown, modern bookplate to rear, light soiling to mounts, ties detached or gone;
Fife Tales by Photo. Part I. Contents. I. The Mother's Fault. II. The Gowks. III. The Minstrel. With a Calotype [sic] of Macduff's Castle. Leven: John Patrick, 1861. 12mo, 74 pp., original glazed yellow printed wrappers, albumen-print photographic frontispiece, wrappers chipped and soiled, attempted adhesive-repair to spine, closed tear in index leaf, occasional soiling to contents;
Limekilns. Its Antiquities and Church Landowners, Harbours, Ships, Shipmasters and Shipments, and Passagium Reginae. Compiled under the Instructions of the Right Honourable the Lord Wavertree of Delamere. Edinburgh: for private circulations, 1929. First edition, one of 215 copies, large folio, original cloth, 20 plates, front free endpaper excised, pen-marks to endpapers, mark to foot of p. 88;
Watson, Charles Brodie Boog. Alexander Cowan of Moray House and Valleyfield (Founder of A. Cowan & Sons), his Kinsfolk and Connections. Perth: D. Leslie (Watson & Annandale), privately printed, 1915. Folio, original cloth, halftone photographic frontispiece from a painting, 2 double-page plates, without genealogical tables listed in contents, inscribed by the author, together with a separate issue of the final part ('Some Notes on Moray House'), folio, original cloth, with plates as in the preceding work, inscribed by the author;
Mackay, Aeneas J. G. A History of Fife and Kinross. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1896. First edition, large-paper issue, one of 100 copies, 4to, original black cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, folding map, bookplates (R. Y. Pickering, dated 1895, and the Barons Glenconner);
and 4 others including William Gifford of Joppa, An Ancient Seaport on the Shores of the Forth, Dunfermline: Journal Printing Works, 1914
Footnote
Note: John Patrick was originally a baker in his native Buckhaven before becoming a commercial photographer, working first in Kirkcaldy and subsequently Edinburgh; his famous images include a portrait of Thomas Carlyle taken during Carlyle's visit to Kirkcaldy in 1874. No other copy of Fife Tales by Photo traced.