The Scottish Highlands: Highland clans and Highland regiments--portraits, clan tartans, views, armorial bearings, &c, and An Essay on Highland Scenery by Maclauchlan, Thomas and John WIlson; John S. Keltie, ed

London, England / Edinburgh, Scotland: A. Fullarton & C. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Uncommon in the trade in this state and condition, a still good-looking, structurally sound set, complete in eight volumes, bound handsomely in red cloth, gilt lettering and illustrations to spines, covers, and with black-stamped ruling, lettering, and vignettes to covers both front and rear, quite involved, featuring armorial bearings, staffs, pennants, banners, and gilt portrait of presumably a Sir, Lord, General (or Author). Scuffing to spine heads and feet, tips, edges, penned inscriptions at top tips of first free endpapers of a few volumes, but clean interiors. New endpapers bound in, with new headbands, and with publisher's multi-page Prospectus bound in at rear of Volume I, Division 1 and inside final volume. Double-columned texts, and tipped in are several score fabric samples exemplifying Highlands tartans, tissue-protected, which have led to slight bleed-through here and there and with considerable ensuing waviness to endpapers. 208 pp. + Prospectus to Volume I. Frontis black-and-white steel engraving of Loch Schiel, "with monument on spot where Prince Charles Edward first raised his standard." Tartan samples of Forbes, Maclean, Argyle Campbell, and Stuart, each tissue-protected. Volume II, Division 2: 209-416 pp., with tartans of clans Robertson and Menzies, with additional fine engravings and illustrations hors-text, as throughout the other volumes. Volume III, Division 3: 417-608 pp., with additional fine engravings, tissue-protected, and with tartans of clans Macdougall Sutherland Or, Mackinnon, and Macneill, also tissue-protected. Volume IV, Division 4, featuring a truly fine engraving of the Great Marquis of Montrose and Castle Urquhart, Loch Ness, also tissue-protected, and tartans of clans Fraser and Munro, with 609-776 pp., then [1], xiv-xxxvi pp., comprising John Wilson's, "An Essay on Highland Scenery." Volume V, Division 5, [1], 2-192 pp., with tartans of Macdonald and Breadalbane-Campbell, Macgregor and Chisholm, also tissue-protected. Volume VI, Division 6, with a fine black-and-white engraving of Lord Clyde, Loch Schiel again, and with 193-384 pp. Volume VII, Division 7, 385-592 pp., with a fine frontis collage of four black-and-white engravings of the busts of John, Earl of Crawford, Sir John Macdonald, Sir Duncan A. Cameron, and Sir George Murray, a duotone facsimile reproduction of the Cathedral Dunkeld, with tartans of Macintyre, Macleod, Mackenzie and Mackintosh, 71st and 78th regiments, and a fine engraved map of Crimea. Volume VIII, Division 8, with two frontis pages of engraved black-and-white busts of more Earls and Sirs and Generals, tissue-protected, with tartans of Macnab and Macnaughton, and Macpherson, Full Dress, 593-818 pp., xii pp. of publisher prospectus again. Undated of publication, but the material is said to have been compiled around 1830, and then updated in the late 1870s, according to the Electric Scotland web-site. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.