Ayrshire Idylls by Neil Munro, illustrated by George Houston: - 1923

London: A & C Black, 1912. Publisher's Cloth. Very Good Minus/none. George Houston. 1912, Lovely look at the Scottish countryside, 20 color plates, 139 pages, Book is Very Good Minus, front board covers are bumped, top corner heavily, shows some spotting and dark ink staining, spine is better, rear panel slightly soiled with bumped corners, previous owner bookplate on front pastedown, tip edge bright gilt, preliminary pages lightly foxed, text clean and clear, text top corner had been bumped. Foxing to all page edges.

London: A. & C. Black., 1923. x, 139pp, 16 col plates, 20 bw ills in text. Or blue-green cloth in jacket. Prize label on front free endpaper, small bookseller label on front paste down, minor foxing throughout. Small bumps to corners. Jacket price clipped with minor edgewear. A nicely illustrated look at Ayrshire.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Houston, George.. 8vo.

Published by A. & C. Black, 1912. 1st edition.. Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Houston, George. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Green decorative cloth, gilt titles to spine and front cover. 20 tipped-in colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. 7s 6d series. Bumping to spine and corners. Browning to spine. Front endpaper is MISSING. Foxing is heaviest to prelims and outer page edges. Some page browning.

London: Adam and Charles Black 1912. (Cloth) 139pp. Very good. Frontispiece, illus.- b / w as well as numerous colour plates tipped in. Former owner's name on endpaper whited out. Illustrations by George Houston..

London: A. and C. Black, 1912. Book. Illus. by illustrated by George Houston. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. x, 139 pages, [20] leaves of color plates : illustrations, Grey green cloth with a design blocked in gilt on the front and printed in pink on the front and spine; titling blocked in gilt on the front and spine; top edge gilt, 20 full page illustrations in colour tipped on white mounts. a volume in the 7s 6d Series. Condition; gilt is bright, very, very light wear to edges and spine ends, covers show some light soil. From the library of John Sloan Gordon, Artist and Educator,Principal, Hamilton (Ontario) Art School 1909-1932 with six line ink inscription from a Eliza B. Sloan to the artist on half-title..

London: A. & C. Black, 1923. 1st ed. thus. Nice copy. octavo. hardback with dust jacket x + 139pp., colour frontis., colour plates, text ills., Neat ownership signature o/w a nice copy in pale green decorated boards in a nice unclipped dust jacket

Adam & Charles Black London 1st 1912 HB With tipped-in illustrations by George Houston. Green decorated cloth, stained and marked, small split to hinge, no inscriptions, internally VG, in tattered DJ. 139pp 0

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1912. First edition. Cloth. Good. 9.5" by 7". George Houston. The first edition of this colourfully illustrated topography look at Ayrshire, a Scottish county. First edition. Illustrated throughout with twenty colour plates and twenty black and white in-text images. Collated complete. A beautiful look into the picturesque views and topography of Ayrshire, with chapters on: the lion and the covenant, Burns and Clarinda, the making of Tam o' Shanter, and the three brothers. Written by Neil Munro, a Scottish journalist, newspaper editor, author and literary critic. Illustrated by George Houston, a Scottish artist known as a prolific landscape painter, using both oil and watercolour. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with light bumping and rubbing to the extremities. Minor loss to the head of the spine. An ink mark to the front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Light age toning to the endpapers.… Read More

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1912. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 7". George Houston. A colourfully illustrated topography look at Ayrshire, a Scottish county, illustrated in colour throughout. The first edition of this work.A beautiful look into the picturesque views and topography of Ayrshire.Illustrated with a tipped-in colour frontispiece, nineteen tipped-in colour plates, and in-text illustrations.Collated, complete.Written by Neil Munro.Illustrated by George Houston.Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper, 'From Herbert, Xmas, 1912'. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. A few light marks to the boards and spine. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with just a few odd spots. Tipped-in plates facing pages 33 and 40 are detached but present. Very Good Indeed