Cormack, Alexander POOR RELIEF IN SCOTLAND AN OUTLINE OF THE GROWTH AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE POOR LAWS IN SCOTLAND, FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE PRESENT DAY
[AUTHOR'S COPY]
Aberdeen D.
Wyllie & Son 1923
1st Edition, 8vo
(22cm). xi, (1) blank, 215pp, (1) blank,
orig. green cloth, gilt, 350 copies printed (out of series). Enclosed is the
printers invoice to the author for the printing, binding, setting, illustrating
and publicising of the book, along with a prospectus. Many ink notes to endpapers. Some, presumably
in the author’s hand and others later.
pencil marks (author’s?) and later ink notes in text. Some foxing
throughout. Binding sound. Some wear to
corners and rubbing to spine.
“Dr Cormack’s Copy”
(as noted in pencil on the half-title).
An interesting insight into the costs of publishing a book in Scotland
in the early 20th Century. It is also a clear
indicator of what we often, as book dealers, suspect: that the limitation
number in such books often belies their true numbers. In this case the numbered examples (1-350)
would account for only 70% of the print-run.
[1262]£125