"LIMITED EDITION OF 1040 REPRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL PLATES (AFTER WHICH THE PLATES ARE DESTROYED)"
48 hand coloured tissue guarded double plates of colourful Edinburgh characters.
Published 1882
Hard cover in good used condition. Crombie (Illustrator). Quarto size. Publishers quarter pebbled calf and green cloth with gilt titles on spine, upper edge gilt, marbled end papers.
183pp + plates
(This edition limited to 1040 copies and signed by the publisher limitation page.With illustrative notes and biological sketches by William Scott Douglas.)
Some shelf wear and corners slightly bumped. Fore and Bottom edge are uncut. Light wear to spine ends. Moderate soiling to the boards and wear to outer corners. There is light soiling to the edges of some of the plates, foxing to the tissue guards and occasional thumb/finger marks to margins. Overall the plates are in good clean condition, two tissue guard absent.
