"Transactions and Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the Library Association of the United Kingdom, Held at Edinburgh, October 5, 6, and 7, 1880" is a 201 page, 8"x12" hardcover edited by Ernest C. Thomas and Charles Welch, and published in 1881 in London by C. Whittingham and Co. Printed at the Chiswick Press. Besides reports from various Association committees, is includes papers written by various authors on library development and history. For example:

Notes on Early Printing in Scotland, 1507-1600
Biographical Notices of Some Eminent Edinburgh Librarians
The Free Libraries of Scotland
How the Free Library System May Be Extended to Counties
On the Classification of History
An Attempt an an Improved System of Press and Shelf Notation
Assyrian Libraries
Notes on the Great Libraries of Scandinavia
Historical Sketch of the Library of the University of Edinburgh
Buckram - A Palinode
Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Libraries of Edinburgh and East Scotland

The book is in acceptable condition. The cloth is torn along the sides of the spine top, 5.5" at the back. It's bumped and frayed at the corners , frayed at the spine bottom, with general rubbing and scuffing. The interior is age-toned, but unmarked except for an old price in pencil on the ffep. The binding is firm.