Author: Mackie,Charles
Title: HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE ABBEY AND TOWN OF PAISLEY
Description: Glasgow & London, Swan/Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman 1835 Steel engraved plates (6) by Joseph Swan . Quarto (230x135mm) original front board only is present with gilt decorative titling (corners of board worn/book block tight) 170pp Usual foxing, more so to engraved TP as it is the only plate not to have its tissue guard in place. 2 cuttings about Paisley tipped onto FEP. Some signs of use & REP not complete but an untrimmed copy making a neat candidate for binding of this illustrated history of Paisley in Scotland with interesting items on the manufacture of Paisley shawls there and in the neighboring villages.

Keywords: Scotland topography steel engravings


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