Author: [GROAT (Alexander)]
Title: Thoughts on Orkney and Zetland, Their Antiquities and Capabilities of Improvement: with Hints towards the Formation of a Local Society for the Investigation and Promotion of These Objects: to which are annexed Extracts from Curious Manuscripts, Together with Useful Lists. Not Printed for Sale.
Description: Edinburgh: Printed by Neill & Co. MDCCCXXI, 1831. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 210 x 128 mms., pp. [7] 8 - 47 [48 blank], including half-title, recently rebound in maroon cloth. A very good copy. The young gentlemen who met in 1831 to boost awareness of the importance of Orkney and Shetland waxed enthusiastically about the islands: "These island, though now in a state of great obscurity, were formerly the seat to many gallant exploits." "It [the islands] may be considered as a part of the nortHern order of the kinggom, affording, perhaps, in its tales of the days or youe, legends as interesting as some of those on which the minstrelsy of the southern border of Scotland has been famed." Uncommon. Copies locaed in Society of Antiquaries of London Library, Aberdeen, National Museums Scotland Library, and NLS.

Keywords: antiquities archeology Scottish


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