1896 The Washer of the Ford : Fiona Macleod : Presentation Copy

1896 The Washer of the Ford : Fiona Macleod : Presentation CopyThe Washer of the Ford By Fiona Macleod Published by Patrick Geddes & Colleagues, Edinburgh and Stone & Kimball, Chicago, 1896. Hardback, cloth, 8vo, 320 pages plus 19 pages of adverts. This is a presentation copy form the author (whose real name was William Sharp) and his wife Elizabeth. The meassge reads: "To our dear friend Adelaide who housed so many of our books during our wanderings, from Elizabeth and the author, F. M = W. S. march 1906"

The dust jackets are both in very good condition and the original price remains intact

Their Evolution and Architecture

and he rejoices that their flatness lends itself so well to this end

The Ernormously Successful Original One Act Play

are exploited to comic effect

to which he gave the name of carronades

Includes black & white photography

where these are of historical significance

Small brown spot to the bottom margin and piece torn from top left margin

Fine half leather bindings

Dr Knox examines the transformation of Shetland's agricultural economy from one of subsistence in the eighteenth century to one of commercial stock-rearing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

The cloth bindings are good with a small dark mark to the front board of volume I and a little wear to the head of the spine on volume II