Chronology; or, the Historian’s Vade-mecum

Scottish Binding. Fore-edge Painting. Bothwell Castle. Trusler (John)  Engraved frontispiece For the Author,  1773 Sixth Edition “with considerable additions and improvements”   24mo Contemporary Scottish full red morocco, sides and spine elaborately gilt with a variety of tools including flowers, leafy sprays, stars, crescents and dots, spine with two birds, gilt roll at edges, gilt turn-ins, marbled end-papers Joints partly cracked and a little wear and marking elsewhere, just a little foxing and soiling internally, some leaves cut close occasionally shaving text, but a nice copy; with the ownership inscription of Elizabeth Garvey dated 1779 on the fly-leaf. Ten pages advertisements at end for the publisher J. Bell. Fore-edge painting showing Bothwell Castle   

Price: £600