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Lot 802
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008 Extracts from the Kirk-Session Records of Dunfermline (from AD 1640 to 1689 inclusive); od A Glimpse of the Ecclesiastical History of Dunfermline (for a period of Fifty years). Edited by E Henderson. Edinburgh” Printed by Fullarton & McNab; Sold by J Miller & Son, W Clark and D Campbell, Dunfermline; T G Stevenson, South Frederick Street, Edinburgh, 1865) Brown limp cloth; original title on front cover; spine worn; signatutre of John Swan, Leslie, on fep
[009] For A Web Begun. The Story of Dunfermline; By W T Barr [Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh: Tweeddale Court; London: 96 Great Russell Street, W C ; 1947. Green cloth; dw; this book was being remaindered in the 1980s, hence the good condition of the book today
[010 ]Burgh Life in Dunfermline in the Olden Time. A Lecture By the Rev William Ross, Aberdour, Delivered in the Music Hall, Dunfermline, 8 Feb 1864, at the Request of the Literary Society of that Town [Edinburgh: Edmonton and Douglas, 1864]; speckled boards, black tape around spine; gilt title around spine (Probably all not original); Bookplate of Carnegie Public Library, Dunfermline, Reference Department
[011] Dunfermline Sketches & Notes. By Robert Somerville [Dunfermline: Herbert T Macpherson, 1917]Illustrated Cream Boards; This copy has a bookplate of a Visit to Dunfermline of the American and Canadian Delegation of the Dry Goods Merchants, Thursday, 2nd June 1921
[012] Reminiscences of Dunfermline and Neighbourhood, Illustrative of Dunfermline Life Sixty Years Ago. By Alexander Stewart. With Chronological Appendix, 1064-1880. Edinburgh: Scott & Ferguson, and J Menzies & Co; London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co 1886; Illustrated Blue Cloth Boards; title in gilt on front cover and spine; Presentation copy “To Mrs Alexander Elder, from her sincere friend, The Author, Nov 1886;” Bookplate of William Saunders, HYS BOOKE on front pastedown; Signature of William Saunders, Edinburgh, 25 Aug 1923, on title page
[013] Royal Dunfermline: A Historical Guide to the City and its Antiquities; With an Account of the Carnegie Benefactions. A Richly Illustrated Souvenir Handbook. By Alan Reid and William Kirk. Dunfermline: A Romanes & Son, “Press” Office; 1906; Green Cloth, hardback [1st Edition]
[ 013 A.] Ditto, Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, 1907. Blue Cloth Presentation Copy, “To A W Bell, Esq., with the Publishers. Comp; iments”
[013B.] Another copy of the 2nd Edition, dark blue cloth, with the following inserted at beginning of volume: Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherds (A.U.). 81st A.M.C., Dunfermline, 21st - 24th May May 1907. With the Compliments of the Fifeshire District
[013C]. Third Edition, Revised and Extended, Dec 1908; dark blue cloth
[013 D]. New and Enlarged Edition [4th Edition], Oct 1922; Light Blue Cloth LOT 013E. 5th Edition, March 1934; light blue cloth, dw (torn); presentation copy, “To Margaret, with best wishes from B & J Fraser, July 1936”
[014] Dunfermline Remembered Between The Wars. By Albert F Lindon. Self Published, 1980s. Printed by Dunfermline Press (A Romanes & Son Ltd), Pitreavie Business Park, Dunfermline; Illustrated Card Covers; stapled
[015] Historical and Statistical Account of Dunfermline. By The Rev Peter Chalmers; William Blackwood snd Sons, Edinburgh and London; 2 vols, 1844 and 1859; Rebound in red cloth boards, with red leather around spine; title in gilt on spine; new eps; Genealogy at end of Vol 2
[016] Another copy of above, but Vol 1 only of 1844; thick heavy bespeckled boards, leather around spine; title in gilt on spine; slight damp staining to beginning of volume, but not affecting frontispiece print or title page
[ 017] The Story an Ancient Craft in An Ancient Town; Card Covers, Pp 16; about weaving in Dunfermline; No Date, c 1920s. Printed by J McOwan, Printer, 10 High Street, Dunfermline
[018] Poems and Songs. By the late Thomas Morrison, Merchant, Dunfermline. Privately Printed. Dunfermline: William Clark & Son, Journal Office , 1902; brown boards; design in gilt on front cover; leather around spine; title in gilt on spine; signature of F Hudson [ie Felix Hudson, clock and watchmaker in Dunfermline], Aug 1984. The Poems and Songs in this volume were contributed by Thomas Morrison (d 1879), merchant, Dunfermline, and appear to have been printed by the latter’s nephew, Thomas Morrison, Braddock, Pennsylvania
[019] A Sketcher’s Notes to Illustrate A View of the Ruins of Dunfermline Abbey; Containing Some Incidents in the Life of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia. Vol II [London: Printed at The Operative Jewish Converts’Institution, Palestine Place, Bethnal Green; folio; blue cloth boards; gilt around front and rear covers; inscription of Mrs M Balfour from the Author, on fep; Volume I was published in 1855, with sketches of the Old Church of Dun, and had nothing to do with Dunfermline
[020]Scottish Reprints. City Development. A Report to the Carnegie Dunfermline, Trust, with An Introduction by Peter Green. Originally published in 1904 and written by Patrick Geddes, this Reprint is a Complete and Unabridged photolithographic facsimile of the first Edition, published by Irish University Press, Shannon, Ireland, 1973; Copyright Carnegie Dunfermline Trust, 1973, for original text and Illustrations; and the Irish University Press for Introduction
[021]. Selections from the Writings of William Stewart (Gavroche). Hardback Boards; Published by Robert Gibson & Sons (Glasgow) Limited; Printed by The Blackfriars Press Limited, Leicester, 1948 Stewart was born in Dunfermline on 8 July 1856, and died in Glasgow on 27 Aug 1947 aged 91. For over 25 years he was Secretary and Organiser of the Independent Labour Party in Scotland. He also published The Worker, a monthly Socialist Journal for Fife and Clackmannan from Bruce Street, Dunfermline, in 1898-1900 This copy has the signature of Douglas Young, 1948 on front paste-down
[009] For A Web Begun. The Story of Dunfermline; By W T Barr [Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh: Tweeddale Court; London: 96 Great Russell Street, W C ; 1947. Green cloth; dw; this book was being remaindered in the 1980s, hence the good condition of the book today
[010 ]Burgh Life in Dunfermline in the Olden Time. A Lecture By the Rev William Ross, Aberdour, Delivered in the Music Hall, Dunfermline, 8 Feb 1864, at the Request of the Literary Society of that Town [Edinburgh: Edmonton and Douglas, 1864]; speckled boards, black tape around spine; gilt title around spine (Probably all not original); Bookplate of Carnegie Public Library, Dunfermline, Reference Department
[011] Dunfermline Sketches & Notes. By Robert Somerville [Dunfermline: Herbert T Macpherson, 1917]Illustrated Cream Boards; This copy has a bookplate of a Visit to Dunfermline of the American and Canadian Delegation of the Dry Goods Merchants, Thursday, 2nd June 1921
[012] Reminiscences of Dunfermline and Neighbourhood, Illustrative of Dunfermline Life Sixty Years Ago. By Alexander Stewart. With Chronological Appendix, 1064-1880. Edinburgh: Scott & Ferguson, and J Menzies & Co; London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co 1886; Illustrated Blue Cloth Boards; title in gilt on front cover and spine; Presentation copy “To Mrs Alexander Elder, from her sincere friend, The Author, Nov 1886;” Bookplate of William Saunders, HYS BOOKE on front pastedown; Signature of William Saunders, Edinburgh, 25 Aug 1923, on title page
[013] Royal Dunfermline: A Historical Guide to the City and its Antiquities; With an Account of the Carnegie Benefactions. A Richly Illustrated Souvenir Handbook. By Alan Reid and William Kirk. Dunfermline: A Romanes & Son, “Press” Office; 1906; Green Cloth, hardback [1st Edition]
[ 013 A.] Ditto, Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, 1907. Blue Cloth Presentation Copy, “To A W Bell, Esq., with the Publishers. Comp; iments”
[013B.] Another copy of the 2nd Edition, dark blue cloth, with the following inserted at beginning of volume: Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherds (A.U.). 81st A.M.C., Dunfermline, 21st - 24th May May 1907. With the Compliments of the Fifeshire District
[013C]. Third Edition, Revised and Extended, Dec 1908; dark blue cloth
[013 D]. New and Enlarged Edition [4th Edition], Oct 1922; Light Blue Cloth LOT 013E. 5th Edition, March 1934; light blue cloth, dw (torn); presentation copy, “To Margaret, with best wishes from B & J Fraser, July 1936”
[014] Dunfermline Remembered Between The Wars. By Albert F Lindon. Self Published, 1980s. Printed by Dunfermline Press (A Romanes & Son Ltd), Pitreavie Business Park, Dunfermline; Illustrated Card Covers; stapled
[015] Historical and Statistical Account of Dunfermline. By The Rev Peter Chalmers; William Blackwood snd Sons, Edinburgh and London; 2 vols, 1844 and 1859; Rebound in red cloth boards, with red leather around spine; title in gilt on spine; new eps; Genealogy at end of Vol 2
[016] Another copy of above, but Vol 1 only of 1844; thick heavy bespeckled boards, leather around spine; title in gilt on spine; slight damp staining to beginning of volume, but not affecting frontispiece print or title page
[ 017] The Story an Ancient Craft in An Ancient Town; Card Covers, Pp 16; about weaving in Dunfermline; No Date, c 1920s. Printed by J McOwan, Printer, 10 High Street, Dunfermline
[018] Poems and Songs. By the late Thomas Morrison, Merchant, Dunfermline. Privately Printed. Dunfermline: William Clark & Son, Journal Office , 1902; brown boards; design in gilt on front cover; leather around spine; title in gilt on spine; signature of F Hudson [ie Felix Hudson, clock and watchmaker in Dunfermline], Aug 1984. The Poems and Songs in this volume were contributed by Thomas Morrison (d 1879), merchant, Dunfermline, and appear to have been printed by the latter’s nephew, Thomas Morrison, Braddock, Pennsylvania
[019] A Sketcher’s Notes to Illustrate A View of the Ruins of Dunfermline Abbey; Containing Some Incidents in the Life of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia. Vol II [London: Printed at The Operative Jewish Converts’Institution, Palestine Place, Bethnal Green; folio; blue cloth boards; gilt around front and rear covers; inscription of Mrs M Balfour from the Author, on fep; Volume I was published in 1855, with sketches of the Old Church of Dun, and had nothing to do with Dunfermline
[020]Scottish Reprints. City Development. A Report to the Carnegie Dunfermline, Trust, with An Introduction by Peter Green. Originally published in 1904 and written by Patrick Geddes, this Reprint is a Complete and Unabridged photolithographic facsimile of the first Edition, published by Irish University Press, Shannon, Ireland, 1973; Copyright Carnegie Dunfermline Trust, 1973, for original text and Illustrations; and the Irish University Press for Introduction
[021]. Selections from the Writings of William Stewart (Gavroche). Hardback Boards; Published by Robert Gibson & Sons (Glasgow) Limited; Printed by The Blackfriars Press Limited, Leicester, 1948 Stewart was born in Dunfermline on 8 July 1856, and died in Glasgow on 27 Aug 1947 aged 91. For over 25 years he was Secretary and Organiser of the Independent Labour Party in Scotland. He also published The Worker, a monthly Socialist Journal for Fife and Clackmannan from Bruce Street, Dunfermline, in 1898-1900 This copy has the signature of Douglas Young, 1948 on front paste-down
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