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Five copies of the Scottish Field magazine in vibrantly illustrated covers, capturing the cultural moment around the post war period, focusing on Scottish heritage, travel, food, whisky and rural life. Bursting with high-quality, aspirational advertising, weddings of the month, photographs and general interest articles. Each issue is circa 55 pp. I… Read more…

Two volumes of Huxley’s essays, owned and annotated at Glencorse Barracks in Midlothian by ‘Muldoon’ Haldane, nephew of the Secretary for War, the Scottish lawyer Viscount Haldane. At the time he acquired these books in 1902 Maldwyn Haldane had recently been commissioned in the Royal Scots Regiment following on from study at University College, Lon… Read more…

Owned and extensively annotated by the influential Town Clerk of Aberdeen whose portrait was painted by Sir George Reid three years after he filled this Memorandum book with his notes and records. John Angus (1841-1913) held a key position at the heart of Aberdeen civic life during the city’s most wealthy period as an industrial and economic powerh… Read more…

A volume of biographies of eminent Scotsmen including Michael Scot, Arnold Blair, Andrew Wynton, Sir Andrew Wood, Robert Henryson, Cardinal Beaton and Sir David Lindsay. Bound in contemporary half calf over brown marbled boards, pretty gilt and embossed decoration to the spine, red spine label and marbled edges. This is a handsome little book, the… Read more…

A pocket sized autograph book containing a sporting collection of over 55 signatures collected circa 1945 including those of the Scotland national football teams, cricketers and occasional entertainers of the day. Included within are: 1. A single pasted in sheet titled ‘Scotland (Wembley Feb 1944)’ signed by 13 of the Scottish players who lost 6-2… Read more…

Bound in publisher’s green cloth, gilt lettering to the spine; lightly bumped. Brown coated endpapers, reinforced with brown tape to the inner hinge with the upper board. Booksellers ticket of Parker and Son, Oxford; frontispiece and two plates; pp314; 24pp adverts. A faint whiff of tobacco smoke hangs about the book when opened. An attractive copy… Read more…

First edition in its original Edinburgh publisher’s burgundy-grained cloth binding. A very good example in robust condition, with replacement endpapers,; though retaining the original binder’s ticket of Burn of Kirby Street. The folding plate is present, with tape reinforcement to lower part of hinge and the book collates correctly: xvi, pp420. The… Read more…

Novelist R S Surtees’ copy: the New Edition, bound in half red leather over red cloth, titled in gilt to spine within a red marbled slipcase. Front pastedown reveals the library bookplate of celebrated Victorian novelist Robert Smith Surtees of Hamsterley Hall. Original 1884 volume bound within in very good condition, with wrappers, a little age sp… Read more…

Fifth edition - with no institutional copies located - of an original Scottish text with a rather grim frontispiece which documents the final speeches, letters, and testimonies of martyrs executed for their faith between 1660 and the late 1680s, serving as a primary record of religious persecution during the reign of King Charles II and James VII.… Read more…

John Newton’s memoirs, fervently annotated by an early reader with lines from Psalm 139, ‘Whereas I was blind now I see’, the inspiration for Newton’s great anthem, Amazing Grace. The hymn was written in 1772 and published in 1779 by Newton, a slave trader turned abolitionist which has become perhaps the most sung and most recorded hymn in the worl… Read more…

Decorative Irish binding commemorating the political trials of Irish nationalist, with a six panelled spine and a decorative Irish harp in the top compartment. In very good condition, half bound in green and brown roan; endpapers age toned and inscribed in a contemporary hand ‘W[illia]m Burns’ to front pastedown. All 3 sections of this second editi… Read more…

Ten separate imprints including Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto dating from the early 1830s, bound together by the publisher together with an additional engraved frontispiece by ‘R Cooper’. 19th century half calf over cloth, worn and scuffed but soundly bound. Marbled endpapers; marks to title page and browning to frontispiece with the stub of a… Read more…

Four volumes of A A Milne's classic children's books bound in a Deluxe Publisher's Binding of brown calf with the author's monogram to upper covers and gilt decoration to the spines featuring characters from the books, all edges gilt. These volumes date from 1927-29, the editions being 16th, 6th, 4th and 3rd respectively. They are in good plus cond… Read more…

An inscribed copy of this rare book about the manners and customs on the Solway Firth. Small format bound in embossed blue-green cloth, neatly repaired, with yellow-coated endpapers and an albumen portrait of the author tipped in opposite the title page, inscribed below. Collates complete: pp208; a little paper decay at the foot of the title page a… Read more…

Nicolas Cox’s compendium of hunting, hawking, fowling, and fishing lore in one of the three variant imprints published in 1697. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Contemporary boards, sympathetically rebacked with a new spine, retaining the original endpapers. Extensively provenanced: ‘Ch: Parry 1742’ on the front pastedown looks to be the earliest owner follow… Read more…

Annotated presentation copy of the third edition with an affectionate note about the author’s life in Exeter, ‘now (1823) quite blind’ written by the book’s recipient, George Westlake. Half calf binding overlaid and strengthened with red cloth at some later stage - over marbled boards. Westlake’s bookplate appears on the front pastedown with offset… Read more…

Smart copy of the life of Nelson’s friend Admiral William Cornwallis written and inscribed by Winston Churchill’s step-father, a man just 16 days older than his distinguished stepson. The subject of the biography, Admiral Cornwallis, an ancestor of the author, was the brother of the defeated British general at Yorktown, Charles Cornwallis, and hims… Read more…

Pre-printed diary used interestingly by a member of Earl Haig’s family as a commonplace/ day book. Chunky small quarto bound in full calf, splitting slighly at outer hinges but very robust still. Laid in is a selection of quotations from Carlyle written on ‘Ramornie Ladybank’ headed paper. Marbled endpapers. Preceding the diary pages are two albume… Read more…

The author’s heavily annotated personal copy with corrections and emendations by the Manchester-based artist throughout. Bound in pictorial publisher’s cloth, a little rubbed to the extremities. Paton’s inscription appears on the half title ‘My Studio Copy Hugh Paton Oct/ 10’. The book is a lavish production which contains an original etched fronti… Read more…

A presentation copy of this guide to the use of sacred music in the liturgy. Tipped onto the title page a Vatican compliments slip from 'Secretarius consillii ad exsequendam constitutionem de sacra liturgia' - the secretary of the counsel for the implementation of the constitution on the sacred Liturgy. Opposite is the bookplate of Prinknash Abbey… Read more…

Mid-eighteenth century bound collection of 'Graveyard' poems including elegies and meditations such as the earliest publication by John Scott of Amwell (the first notable Quaker poet) and works by Thomas Gray, Edward Young, John Delap and Reginald Heber. Small quarto bound in eighteenth century speckled calf, the boards decorated with a border of c… Read more…

The book’s dedicatee has annotated this inscribed copy of Medawar’s Advice by revealing the names of the otherwise unnamed scientists cited by Medawar in his text. Alongside the relevant sections Todd has added the names Herman Kahn, Harry Johnson, Herbert Samuel, R E Billingham, effectively decoding Medawar’s anonymised text. Medawar has inscribed… Read more…

Proofed and covered with typographic instruction, a bound typescript of Miskin's novel inspired by Andreyev's short story with additional double page spreads on tracing paper showing the layouts for the half title, title page, chapter headings and sample text page, annotated 'Specimen pages for Willmer Brothers Ltd for Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited… Read more…

Sara Delano Roosevelt’s copy of her son’s biography with her initials, “SDR”, in pencil to the front free end paper, from the collection of Frederick Baldwin Adams, a relative of FDR and his mother. Sara Delano Roosevelt clearly read the book with close interest, as indicated by the marginal pencil lines scattered throughout the text. As these anno… Read more…

First edition, signed, inscribed with teasingly private annotations intended for the book’s recipient alone. Plante has written on the half title “To Frank / with countless / years of devotion / and love! / David / Cambridge, 2009”, and again in blue ink to the title page: “To Frank once / again, with even / more devotion and / love, / though we /… Read more…