Neil Munro — Ayrshire Idylls

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1912. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this colourfully illustrated topography look at Ayrshire, a Scottish county. First edition. Illustrated throughout with twenty colour plates and twenty black and white in-text images. Collated complete. A beautiful look into the picturesque views and topography of Ayrshire, with chapters on: the lion and the covenant, Burns and Clarinda, the making of Tam o' Shanter, and the three brothers. Written by Neil Munro, a Scottish journalist, newspaper editor, author and literary critic. Illustrated by George Houston, a Scottish artist known as a prolific landscape painter, using both oil and watercolour. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with light bumping and rubbing to the extremities. Minor loss to the head of the spine. An ink mark to the front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Light age toning to the endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Good . Ill.: George Houston. Good .