Old Glasgow. The Place & The People from the Roman occupation to the C18th
Title: Old Glasgow. The Place & The People from the Roman occupation to the Eighteenth Century
Author: Andrew MacGeorge
Publisher: Blackie & Son., Glasgow
Date: 1880
Full leather bound 1st Edition - Rare Binding. 338 pp. Tissued-guarded frontis, plates and illustrations in the text.
Synopsis
Old Glasgow: The Place and the People from the Roman Occupation to the Eighteenth Century is a famous 1880 historical work by Andrew MacGeorge. It traces Glasgow's growth from a small ecclesiastical settlement on the Molendinar Burn into a bustling pre-industrial and commercial hub
This is an extremely elegant and rare edition of Andrew MacGeorge's history of the City of Glasgow accompanied by 38 illustrations including steel-engraved plates after drawings by W. L. Leitch.
Condition Notes
Finely bound in full aniline calf over bevelled boards. Elaborately gilt blocked and blind-bordered with marbled paper end plates. Tissue-guarded, steel-engraved plates after drawings by W. L. Leitch. An exceptional copy overall.
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