Buy this book on-line FLEMING, ARNOLD: : HELENSBURGH AND THE THREE LOCHSSCOTLAND.HELENSBURGH.MACNEUR & BRYDEN,LTD.,nd. ISBN No ISBN.
SCOTLAND,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Undated but research indicates early to mid 1950s.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip - absence of publisher's printed price to dw/dj.A black circular 1802 armorial crest+Latin mottoe of Helensburgh to front panel of cream or possibly aged(?) white paper illustrated dw/dj with black lettering; with extensive shelf-wear and its concomitant creasing to edges and corners and overall but faint sporadic foxing/spotting.Chipping to all corners and both head+foot of spine/ backstrip of dw/dj - all with varying degrees of loss - but not substantial loss. A 2.5" closed tear to rear gutter's edge of spine/backstrip.Top edges dust-soiled with light,sporadic foxing/ spotting,fore-edges brighter and cleaner and visibly less affected; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no foxing/spotting internally and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,very clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain pale blue cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped black ink printed letters and armorial design miniaturised and repeated to front and black letters to spine/ backstrip and clean plain white pastedowns but inevitable off-set foxing from dw/dj's inner flaps to both front and rear free endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3- 86pp [paginated] includes author's invitation,assorted topics - people,places etc.,with a couple of contemporary b/w photographs interspersed in the text,plus [unpaginated] b/w map of the district to reverse of front free endpaper,title page with miniature armorial design and to the rear 16pp contemporary scenic b/w photographs.
Described hard but fairly and honestly and despite the chipping,creasing and tears,99% of dw/dj present - reads more detrimentally than actually is.
For Helensburgh,local historians say that in January 1776 the lnd of Malig or Milrigs was first advertised for feuing by Sir James Colquhoun of Luss.When it had begun to be laid out as a residential district it was first still known as Mulig or simply as the New Town,but was later named by the superior in honour of his wife,Lady Helen,who was the daughter of William,Lord Strathnaver.
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