"A book worth reading is worth buying."
— John Ruskin

London: Printed by Mills, Jowett, and Mills, 1833. [Scottish Topography] FIRST EDITION. Duodecimo (19 x 12cm), pp.[2] 264 [12]. Publisher's quarter green cloth and plain pasteboards, with printed paper title label to spine stating a price of 2/6. Advertisements bound in to front and rear. Top and fore edges untrimmed. Gentle toning throughout, with some very light spotting to preliminaries and final leaves. Heavy wear to binding, including starting joints, bumped corners, and heavy chipping and fraying to head and tail of spine. Label chipped and heavily browned. Rare in the publisher's pasteboards. Good. "The motives to the making of this publication, are, to communicate to everybody, as far as I am able, correct notions relative to Scotland; its soil; its products; its state, as to the well-being or ill-being of the people; but, above all things, it is my desire, to assist in doing justice to the character, political as well as moral, public as well as private, national as well as social, of our brethren in that very much misrepresented part of the kingdom." Item #58593
Price: £195.00