BILLINGS, Robert William.

Inquire · Offered by Peter Harrington

The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland. First edition, attractively bound, of this "most valuable contribution to the history of architecture, as well as to the archaeological traditions of the north. This fine work consists almost entirely of views from points judiciously selected, and spiritedly drawn", with explanatory text (Donaldson, p. 123).This set has the bookseller's ticket of Hugh Hopkins, the famous Glasgow bookseller and publisher whose shops were "a resort of the literati... Historian and antiquarian, journalist and poet... foregather in the backroom" (Eyre-Todd).

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