Manuscript on paper entitled “Press Catalogue of Books in the Library of Sir Michael R. Shaw Stewart Bart. Ardgowan. MDCCCXLIX.”

by Sir Michael Robert Shaw-Stewart, 7th Baronet

$3,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

Lithographed title & 80 printed ruled leaves, each written on one side in a neat & legible hand. Folio 380 x 240 mm. , orig. half calf covers somewhat worn & rubbed, upper hinge cracked but strong , leather lettering label on upper cover, a.e.g. “Ardgowan: 1849.”The Shaw-Stewart family has been one of the most important in Renfrewshire since the 15th century. The lands of Ardgowan, set on the south shores of the Firth of Clyde, were given to John

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