PICTURESQUE SCOTTISH SCENERY, from Original Drawings by T.L. Rowbotham, with Archaeological, Historical, Poetical, and Descriptive Notes Loftie, The Reverend William James Britain

Octavo: 114 pp. with a frontispiece and 5 full-page plates, all chromolithographs, tipped onto pages, after illustrations by T.L. Rowbotham, as well as a title page ornaments, ornamental chapter heads, tail pieces and initials, and a vignette, all wood engravings. In the publisher's terra cotta sand-grain cloth binding, with beveled boards; a chromolithograph onlay, a blue coated paper onlay, black and gilt-stamped ruled borders and frames, gilt-stamped ruled diaper pattern with rose, shamrock, and thistle devices, and gilt over-stamped black letter titling on the front panel; black and gilt-stamped ruled and ornamental head and tail bands, and gilt-stamped black letter running titling on the spine; and blind-stamped ruled borders, and ruled diaper pattern with rose, shamrock, and thistle devices on the rear panel. All edges gilt, with dark turquoise coated endpapers. Light wear to the corners and tips; else near fine. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin.