Neil Munro — The Clyde: River and Firth

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1907. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition of this richly illustrated topographical glimpse into the River Clyde and its surroundings. First edition.   In the publisher's original cloth binding.   Featuring a colour frontispiece, sixty-six further colour plates, and a folding map to the rear. 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. 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.   In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, relatively smart with reasonable loss of cloth to the spine head and archival markings to the the spine tail. Boards and spine a little faded, with a few marks. Internally, binding a little weak, with fairly delicate hinges, especially to the rear, resulting in the plate to face page 32 being detatched and tipped in. Publisher's insert, "On Four Fronts" tipped in to page 39. A bright and clean copy with only occasional spotting, heavier to the first and last few pages. Good . Ill.: Mary Y. and J. Young Hunter. Good .