Search Results: baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of scotland by billings robert william

The Grimsay Press, 2008-06-30. Paperback. Good.

Edinburgh, London: Published for the Author by W. Blackwood and Sons, 1852. Hardcover. Good (Boards are edgeworn/scuffed/smudged/bumped; textblock edges are scuffed/worn; bookplate ifc; inner hinges are beginning to crack at the top; interior is tone, as expected with age, but very clean; textblock is solid.). Light brown leather with five raised bands and red and green compartments with gilt lettering and design; fully gilted textblock edges; illustrated endpapers; unpaginated; richly illustrated with plates. This is volume III only of four volumes.

Edinburgh, London: Published for the Author by W. Blackwood and Sons, 1852. Hardcover. Good (Boards are edgeworn/scuffed/smudged/bumped; textblock edges are scuffed/worn; bookplate ifc; inner hinges are beginning to crack at the top; interior is tone, as expected with age, but very clean; textblock is solid.). Light brown leather with five raised bands and red and green compartments with gilt lettering and design; fully gilted textblock edges; illustrated endpapers; unpaginated; richly illustrated with plates. This is volume IV only of four volumes.

The Grimsay Press, 2008-06-30. Paperback. Good.

Edinburgh:: Oliver and Boyd,, 1901.. First edition.. publisher's cloth.. Light use to cloth; all volumes tight and sound.. Folio,. Illustrated by Robert William Billings.. An Appreciation by R. Rowland Anderson. Additional postage will apply for this large, heavy set.

Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1900. hardcover. very good. Historical descriptions by John Hill Burton. Illustrated with 240 fine steel engravings with tissue guards and many text illustrations in woodcut. 4 volumes, tall 4to, blue cloth. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, n.d. (ca. 1900) Very good.<br/><br/>

Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1899. hardcover. very good(+). Historical description by John Hill Burton. Illustrated with 240 fine steel engravings with tissue guards and many text illustrations in woodcut. 4 volumes, tall 4to, blind stamped and gilt decorated black cloth. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1899. Very good (+).<br/><br/>

Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1852. Billings' magnum opus, a compendium of 240 finely rendered engravings of the castles, halls & churches of Scotland, hithertofore but scarcely considered, with commentary. The subscribers' list denotes a Folio Proof edition, an India Proof edition, Large Paper and Small Paper editions; we believe this to be the 'Large Paper' edition. Bound in full red leather by MacLehose of Glasgow. Set of four, complete. Shelfworn, edges show some wear, hinges have external cracking, but bindings still sound. Head of volume one shows a chip. Period armorial bookplate of one John Dryden ['Non Nisi Per Ardua'] in volumes I & II; circa 1912 bookplate of CT/NY doctor Frederic Grosvenor Goodridge in all four volumes. Light foxing to flyleaves; text pages lightly tanned; plates generally clean, though a few minor tanned spots are noted. Unpaginated; 240 fine engraved plates, many with a few pages of letterpress description, small… Read More