SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND ( publisher and editor ) - William Smellie - James Foulis - Earl of Buchan - John Geddes - John Dillon - [...] ( some early contributors )
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" Edinburgh, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1792 - 1890, bound in 5 large in-4° volumes, 26,8 x 21,2 cm, [Vol.I] (12)nn pp + (III- XXXIV) pp + 570 pp + 7 plates (one folding) . [Vol. II] XVIII pp + 512 pp + 32 pp (appendix) + 19 plates or tables (2 folding). [Vol. III] VII pp + 337 pp ; (9)nn pp + (VI-XXXI) pp + 212 pp + ()(errata) ( appendix) + 11 plates. [Vol. IV] VII pp + (1)(list) + 453 pp + 59 pp (appendix) + (1)(errata) + XXXI plates . [Vol. V] XI pp + 457 pp + 79 pp (list of donations) + 70 plates. (complete set with all ills.). The title pages for vols. I , II , III were published in 1890 ( with the last vol.) and are bound in at the correct places. Set uniformly bound in quarter vellum, with marbled boards and end papers, edges painted red. Spines decorated with gilt and with two labels. From the library of Greenshields-Leadbetter of Stobieside . His ex-libris tipped on to the first fly leaf in every volume. Also a later ex-libris of Mr. Blackwood Greenshields ( on the first paste down). Very fine copy in very handsome bindings. For the sake of completeness we mention as only defect the browning and staining a few plates in vols. 3 & 4. Complete set of the most important archaeological and historical periodical published in Scotland in the 19th c.. It started in the 18th century (1792 !) and ran until 1890. In this year it merged with the Society's Proceedings."