BONNIE SCOTLAND by Moncrieff A. R. Hope - 1912

London: A. & C. Black, 1912. First edition, second printing. Illustrated with 75 finely produced colour plates from paintings by Sutton Palmer, wonderfully reproduced and with captioned tissue guards. 8vo, publisher's beautifully decorated cloth, the upper cover gilt lettered within an all-over design of Scottish thistle and heather in green, brown and purple, the spine likewise decorated and lettered in gilt, t.e.g. xi, 255 pp. A very pleasing copy, internally the paper is unusually clean and completely free of the often-found foxing, the plates and tissue guards all in fine order, the binding is attractive with only pleasant light evidence of age, the hinges and endpapers are fully intact and strong. A BEAUTIFUL BOOK. This is the first and largest of the author's three works on Scotland published by A. & C. Black. It contains a whooping 75 beautiful plates by Palmer Sutton. Palmer was best known for his Gold Metal winning idyllic rustic landscapes painted in watercolours and Moncrieff's tour of Scotland provided him with many of his best views and settings. The success of this volume would inspire the two sequels, although each of those had only a fraction of the illustrations provided here in BONNY SCOTLAND.