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Supplemental Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Scottish Seals: Royal, Baronial, Ecclesiastical, and Municipal, Embracing the Period from A.D. 1150 to the Eighteenth Century, Taken from Original Charters and Other Deeds Preserved in Public and Private Archives (2 volumes) Laing, Henry Published by Bannatyne and Maitland Clubs (T. Constable)/ Edmonston and Douglas, Edinburgh, 1850-1866. Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Two volumes. Volume I. xxxi, 232pp., + 29 pages of plates (1850); Volume II: xxvii, (i), 237pp., (i), + 15 pages of plates, including the frontispiece (1866). Volume 1 notes that it is LIMITED TO 150 COPIES. Volumes are nicely and uniformly bound in half brown leather over brown cloth. Minor sunning to parts of exterior. Just a touch of rubbing to overall nice gilt lettering and decorations on spines. Gilt rule at borders of each leather section and cloth. This copy long ago was in the "Library of the Solicitors Before the Supreme Courts" in Edinburgh, with their gilt stamp to each front cover and their ink-stamp to interior on many pages. Leather is generally not dry and is overall nice, with some heavier shelf wear and a few, discreet worn through areas at extremities - mainly to corners of boards. None of this is terribly offensive. Mild spacing or tenderness to hinges. Light soiling and minor spotting (not stains) in places to interior, here and there. A mild kind of darkening in places at edges of some leaves. Some of this darkening looks like staining, but may just be from the gilding process to top-edges of pages. Minor smudging to a small number of leaves, with no effect on reading any text. Many leaves admit to tiny tears at extremities and in a small number of cases, small chips, at same. The tissue over frontispiece and several other tissues are either damaged, admit to some creasing, or are missing. The volumes have been fully collated and all called for text and plates are present. Mild foxing. Overall, certainly a nice, clean, sound and attractive set. Seller Inventory # 038272
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