by John Struthers
Glasgow, printed by R. Chapman, for William Turnbull..., 1818.
1st and only edition. pp112. frontispiece portrait with original tissue guard.
apart from some soiling to end-papers, in good clean and fresh condition, though a bit age musty. library book-plates to front paste-down. small catalogue number to verso of title-page. in the original plain boards.
John Struthers was born in East Kilbride in 1776 and died in Glasgow in 1853. Trained as a shoemaker, he also worked for the Glasgow printers Khull, Blackie & Co., and as librarian at Stirling's Public Library in Glasgow.
This book is being sold on behalf of the Largs & District Museum & Historical Society, by order of the Board of Trustees
