Scottish National Readings

294pp plus 6pp publisher’s catalogue at rear. In blue cloth-covered boards, top edge gilt (lightly rubbed on corners and spine ends, spine sunned, text block edges darkened ). Previous owner’s inscription on front free endpaper else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. A collections of readings, prose and poetry, on the theme of the identity of Scotland, including A Sermon on Curling, Boswell on Johnson, A Lockerbye Lycke, Kinmont Willie etc. Also included are some more usual writings associated the author and his work as a public entertainer and educator, especially in his home town of Paisley; the collection is therefore unusually rich in reference to Paisley and its surroundings. 8vo.