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No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine original engraved portrait. Mounted and ready to frame, this is a wonderful opportunity to purchase this splendid portrait. Decorative and attractive. C. 1830.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Engraved By Harding (illustrator). A fine original engraving. Mounted and ready to frame, this is a wonderful opportunity to purchase this splendid portrait. Decorative and attractive.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Published in Aberdeen by James G. Bisset in 1890 this is a very rare provincially printed book of Victorian poetry, some in local dialect, by Anthony Mitchell Bishop of Aberdeen & Orkney, it is noted that the copy held in the Library of Scotland indicates the book was a limited impression, this copy has the Number 17 neatly written opposite the title page which would confirm that a small slim format bound in the original printed card covers with cloth covered spine, just under 7 inches tall, 56 pages, covers are generally darkened, rubbed and marked else in good solid condition, internally a few mild handling marks, mild creases else in good condition.

First edition hard back binding in half black leather covers, gilt title to the spine, sea green cloth covers, top edge gilt, fore and lower page edges untrimmed. 8vo. 8'' x 5''. Contains 144 printed pages of text. He wrote The Ecclesiastical History of Scotland from the Episcopal point of view, and several songs of which The Reel of Tullochgorum and The Ewie wi' the Crookit Horn are the best known, he also rendered some of the Psalms into Latin and kept up a rhyming correspondence with Robert Burns. Few worm holes, thinning of the paper and finger marks to the front end papers. Aberdeen Booksellers label inside. Member of the P.B.F.A. POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.

An interesting letter, indicating the piety underlining Shaftesbury's philanthropy. See his long entry in the Oxford DNB, which sums up his achievements as 'very substantial' and 'a source of enduring inspiration to others', together with those of Russell and Skinner, the last of which contains, regarding the part of the 'Drummondite controversy' relating to the Rev. Sir William Dunbar (d.1881): 'In [1843] a serious controversy had sprung out of the refusal of Sir William Dunbar, minister of St Paul's Chapel, Aberdeen, to receive or to administer the sacrament in accordance with the Scottish ritual. Acting with the concurrence of his synod, Skinner excommunicated Dunbar on 13 August 1843.' The present item is 4pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, with negligible remnants of windowpane mount adhering at edges. Good bold signature 'Shaftesbury', and headed 'Private'. Addressed to 'The Lord Russell | M. P.', with salutation to 'My dear Russell'. Shaftesbury's elongated handwriting is not entirely legible, but the letter appears to read: 'You have now an opportunity of showing both mercy & justice to a very deserving man, the Revd Sir William Dunbar, who was so grossly treated by that saint of the "old Scotch Prelacy", Bishop Skinner. / His inheritance was left in anger (but [thro mistake?]) to pay off the national debt!! My belief is that the first national debt due, is, as the Publick friend says, "to do justice & to love mercy" -'. The postcript reads: 'The Archbishop of Canterbury strongly approves the [publication?] of the Memorial'.