Author: Murray, Frances
Title: Summer in the Hebrides - Sketches in Colonsay and Oronsay (1887)
Description: James Maclehose & Sons for Private Circulation, 1887. Hardcover. First edition of 1887 printed for Private Circulation. Navy blue boards with the Oronsay Cross in gilt on front board. Illus. with one map of Colonsay and Oronsay, line drawings by Miss A.L. MacDonald and two small gilt ringed round vignette reproductions in colour of boats at sea tipped in. Autobiographical recollections of summer family holidays plus some Scottish rhymes and verses and a section on the history of the islands. 176pp. Sm 8vo. Neat old gift inscription - J B Murdoch Esq from D.U. hand written opposite title page. Little wear to boards and edges and short nick at the top of the spine. Original decorated end papers. Otherwise tight and clean - see scans. . Very Good

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