Author: M'NAYR (James):
Title: A Guide from Glasgow, to some of the most Remarkable Scenes in the Highlands of Scotland, and the Falls of the Clyde.
Description: Glasgow: Printed in the Courier Office, 1797 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 207 x 118 mms., pp. [5] 6 - 249 [250 blank], 6 [contents], contemporary half calf, gilt spine, black leather label; marbled boards a bit scored, but a good to very good copy with the armorial bookplate of Sir John Smith, Bart. onf the front paste-down end-paper. M'Nayr's book was noticed in The Monthly Review for 1798, : "The present very rational fashion of making excursions to the remote, and formerly, unexplored these kingdoms cannot be too much recommended.... The present work is not without a considerable share of merit; the 'verbal painting' of the various scenes, the sublimity of which is almost peculiar to the North, is evidently studied in the school of Gilpin, but is somewhat too highly coloured in respect to good taste, and, we apprehend, in point also of accuracy: the quotations are frequent and apt, both historical and poetical: but some will contend against the admission of Ossian as of the former character." M'nayr was the first editor of the Glasgow Herald and a practiing solicitor.

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