Lives of the Lindsays : or, A memoir of the houses of Crawford and Balcarres
Alexander William Crawford Lindsay Crawford, Anne Lindsay Barnard, Henry J. B. Clements (Donor), Alexander Lindsay Crawford, Colin Lindsay, Coutts Lindsay (Dedicatee), Hugh Lindsay, James Stair Lindsay, John Lindsay, Margaret Lindsay (Dedicatee), Robert Lindsay, John Murray (Publisher), Jesse Watts-Russell (Former owner), Samuel Williams, Hullmandel & Walton (Lithographer), William Clowes and Sons (Printer)
Bindings
3 volumes ([9], x-xxxii, 489, [1] pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates; [5], vi-x, 516 pages ; [8], 500 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, genealogical table ; 23 cm (8vo)
1008407976
Bound in England about 1849 in brown calf. Covers bordered with double gilt fillet and blind roll, and with the armorial stamp of Jesse Watts-Russell in gold at the centres. Turn-in edges gilt with roll. Spines with five raised bands, panelled in gold with fillets, rolls and arabesque ornaments, and with red and green morocco lettering pieces. Headcaps; headbands; brown silk register (v. 1 only); marbled endpapers; marbled edges
Donated by Henry J.B. Clements
Illustrations comprise a folding letterpress genealogical table, 2 wood-engraved plates of seals, and 2 folding lithographed plates of facsimile signatures
Octavo format
Printer's imprint on title page versos and colophons
Wanting half-titles
With "Directions to the binder" for placing the plates (v. 3, p. [5])
With dedication to Sir Coutts and Margaret Lindsay
Wood-engravings by S. Williams; lithographs by "Hullmandel & Walton Lithographers."
Wove papers
Title printed in red and black and within red rule borders