Neil Munro — The Clyde: River and Firth

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1907. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this brightly illustrated work on the River Clyde, with a folding map. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, sixty-six colour plates, and a folding map to the rear. Collated complete. A detailed study of the River Clyde, with chapters on the source, the Lanark and the Falls, the Orchard Country, Castled Crags, Glasgow, the harbour, Lennox, Greenock, yachting, Loch Fyne, wider shores, and the Islands. Written by Neil Munro, a Scottish journalist, newspaper editor, author and literary critic. Illustrated by Mary Young Hunter, a New Zealand painter, and her husband, John Young Hunter, a Scottish artist and painter who studied at the Royal Academy Schools. In the original pictorial cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and boards. Small splits in the cloth resulting in minor fraying to the extremities. Hinges starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting. Age toning to the endpapers. Good Only . Ill.: Mary Young Hunter; John Young Hunter. Good Only .